Slater, Joseph C. wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I am trying to import a function in a module by variable name. The
> specific example is that my function allows the user to select which
> function my code will use (in this case, which optimizer in scipy). There
> is a default for a named variable. I have thing working in a quite unclean
> way- I import them all and then look them up in globals. I'm not trying to
> clean it up.
>
> Essentially I'd like to
>
> method = 'newton_krylov'
>
> chosen_optimize_func = (from scipy.optimize import method)
>
> Of course, even I know this shouldn't work. What I tried is
>
> solver_method = __import__('scipy.optimize.' + method, fromlist=[''])
>
> which yields:
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ModuleNotFoundError
> Traceback (most recent call last)
>
> <ipython-input-28-f58650552981> in <module>()
> ----> 1 solver_method = __import__('scipy.optimize.' + method,
> fromlist=[''])
>
>
>
> ModuleNotFoundError
> : No module named 'scipy.optimize.newton_krylov'
>
>
> Well, no, it's not a module but a function.
Indeed, the function is a name in a module, or an attribute of the module
object. You need two steps to access it. First import the module, then use
getattr() to extract the function, preferrably
>>> import scipy.optimize
>>> method = 'newton_krylov'
>>> chosen_optimize_func = getattr(scipy.optimize, method)
>>> chosen_optimize_func
<function newton_krylov at 0x7f0d0c270bf8>
but if the module varies, too, use import_module():
>>> import importlib
>>> getattr(importlib.import_module("scipy.optimize"), "newton_krylov")
<function newton_krylov at 0x7f0d0c270bf8>
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