Jacob H wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to be able to take a module full of class instances, > functions, etc and bind all its names to a separate container class in > a different module. I have come up with the following way to do it..
[snip] > I feel uneasy about this method. I foresee bad namespace clashes. > What's a better way? :) Perhaps this is more like what you are looking for: import stuff # stuff we want to copy import everything # initially empty module where to store stuff # loop over each attribute name in stuff for attr in dir(stuff): # skip over __special__ attributes, probably don't want them if attr.startswith('__') and attr.endswith('__'): continue value = getattr(stuff, attr) setattr(everything, attr, value) You can add more checking for clashes or whatever by looking at the attribute name (attr) which is a string. hth, n -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list