Many thanks to the numerous helpful comments by Paul Rubin, Carsten
Haese and others in the thread "How to pass a reference to the current
module".
After digesting these comments, I came up with this way to circumvent
the problem of attempting to reference modules that import other modules
in said imported modules (executed in main):
# branches ==> dictionary of dictionaries (actually a ConfigObj)
for (name, branch) in branches.items():
modname = branch.get('__module__', None)
if modname is None:
namespace = globals()
else:
namespace = __import__(modname).globals()
fname = branch.get('__function__', name)
function = namespace[fname]
# etc.
I'm wondering if this approach seems problematic to anyone.
Thanks again for all of the help I've received.
James
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UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095
http://www.jamesstroud.com/
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