Hi,
I did this a few times and put the code that loads the plugins in
the __init__.py of the plugin directory. You then do not have to
do the path stuff.
You can also make a rule that the class defined in each
plugin module should be a certain name, for example the same
name as the module (but starting with a capital to follow pep8).
Cheers,
Almar
2009/4/23 Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:47:56 +0200, Johannes Bauer wrote:
>
> > Hello group,
> >
> > I'm developing a GUI application in Python and having a blast so far :-)
> >
> > What I'd like to add: I want the GUI users to supply plugin scripts,
> > i.e. offer some kind of API. That is, I want the user to write short
> > Python pieces which look something like
> >
> > import guiapp
> >
> > class myplugin():
> > def __init__(self):
> > guiapp.add_menu("foobar")
> >
> > def exec(self, param):
> > print("foo")
>
> "exec" is a reserved word:
>
> >>> def exec(self, param):
> File "<stdin>", line 1
> def exec(self, param):
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>
> > the GUI application should now browse the plugin directory and read
> > those plugin python files and somehow incorporate (i.e. discover what
> > modules are there, instanciate, etc.)
> >
> > How do I do that at runtime with Python?
>
> Untested:
>
> import os
> import sys
> plugin_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/some/path/')
> plugins = set()
> for name in os.listdir(plugin_dir):
> base, ext = os.path.splitext(name)
> if ext in ('.py', '.pyc', '.pyo'):
> plugins.add(base)
> save_path = sys.path
> plugin_modules = []
> try:
> sys.path = [plugin_dir]
> for name in plugins:
> plugin_modules.append(__import__(name))
> finally:
> sys.path = save_path
>
>
>
>
> Hope this is useful.
>
>
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