On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Gary Duzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> 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?)
>
> You might want to read what "help(__import__)" tells you. It
> sounds like what you want is:
But have you read it yourself ?
>
> mynamespace['xxx'] = __import__('modulename.xxx', fromlist=['xxx'])
Only if modulename is actually a package, which doesn't really make
sense for a "modulename". Also, fromlist doesn't need to be ['xxx'] if
you want to import the submodule 'xxx' from the, now supposed,
'modulename' package, it could be anything that is not an empty list.
>
> Seems a bit weird to me, but that's the way it is, and I'm sure
> there is a reason for it.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Gary Duzan
> Motorola H&NM
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