En Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:52:11 -0300, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com>
escribió:
Is there a decent way of running "from <variable> import *"? Perhaps
using
__import__?
Does it mean using the copy module or adding an element to globals()
somehow?
Yes, I think I do have a good use for this: importing either pure python
or
cython versions of a module into a single namespace that can provide the
same interface (transparent to the caller), whether C extension modules
are
viable in the current interpreter or not. So you have a stub module that
provides one or the other, depending on availability and suitability.
See pickle.py in Python 3 as an example: the slow (pure Python) code
resides in pickle.py; the fast (C code) in _pickle.so (on Windows, a
built-in module). Near the end of pickle.py, there is a line "from _pickle
import *" which, if successful, overrides (replaces) any previous
definitions; if not, the ImportError is trapped and the previously defined
Python code remains valid.
Unlike the 2.x series, where you should decide to "import cPickle" or
"import pickle" (or attempt both, cathcing the ImportError), here you only
have to "import pickle" in your code; if the fast module is present, it is
automatically loaded and used; else, the slow but compatible version is
used. You don't even have to know that an alternative implementation
exists.
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