Try something like this: for x in plugs: cmd = "import %s" % x exec (cmd)
"Dfenestr8" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi. > > I have a program which I want a plugin directory for. I figured the way to > go about that would be to just add a plugin/ dir to sys.path, and import > everything in it. Then my program can just execute the main() method of > each imported plugin. > > Is that a good way to go about it? > > If so, how do I import everything in the plugins dir? The method raises an > error as you can see. > > >>> import sys > >>> import os > >>> sys.path.append("plugins") > >>> ls = os.popen("ls plugins").readlines() > >>> for x in ls: > ... plugs.append(x[0:x.rfind(".py")]) > >>> for x in plugs: > ... import x > ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 2, in ? > ImportError: No module named x > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list