Using "external" vars on module load time

[Peter Otten]

Marco Aschwanden wrote:

> Load a module and hand in already the server_api. How can I achieve this?

Using execfile() is the simplest approach:

import imp
import sys

def import_preloaded(name, path=None, variables={}):
    if path is None:
        file, path, description = imp.find_module(name)
    module = imp.new_module(name)
    module.__dict__.update(variables)
    execfile(path, module.__dict__)
    sys.modules[name] = module
    return module

if __name__ == "__main__":
    demo = import_preloaded("demo", variables=dict(whatever=42))

I think you should consider a class instead of a module, though.

Peter