Guilherme Polo wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What is a good way to emulate:
>>
>> from module import xxx
>> where 'module' is a dynamically generated string?
>>
>> __import__ ('modulename', fromlist=['xxx'])
>>
>> seems to be what I want, but then it seems 'xxx' is not placed in
>> globals() (which makes me wonder, what exactly did fromlist do?)
>
> fromlist is used for importing subpackages/submodules of the first arg
> of __import__. Since you are using "modulename", I'm guessing it is
> not a package, fromlist will do nothing for you.
> To solve your problem you could do getattr(__import__('modulename'),
> 'xxx').
This seems to be what I want, don't know if there is a simpler way:
stuff =['A','B']
module = __import__ (modulename)
for e in stuff:
globals().update({e : module.__dict__[e]})
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