ERRATA^2
The uglyness is back, just encapsulated in local_import (same syntax
as proposed).
The problem is the orginal implementation does not handle __init__.py
properly.
Doing so would be too expensive.
Massimo
On Oct 30, 11:07 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> ERRATA:
>
> After more tests
>
> [....]
>
> > I found and implemented a better way. With the code in trunk we can
> > now do:
>
> > d = local_import('a.b.c')
>
> > - it is not based on exec
>
> actually I when running on GAE the first version did not work. on GAE
> it uses execfile.
>
> > - it searches in applicaitons/currentapp/modules/ before searching in
> > sys.path so no conflicts ever
>
> Do not use it to search sys.path because there are some unresolved
> issues
>
> > - each modules/ folder acts like its own site-packages and you can put
> > any third party module in there whether or not is uses relative
> > imports
>
> I was wrong. This still does not work if the imported module does not
> use relative imports.
>
> > - you can ask it force reloading modules at every request, great for
> > debugging modules:
>
> > d = local_import('a.b.c', force=True)
>
> or "reload" instead of "force" now in trunk.
>
> Not quote as perfect as I had hoped but it does most of what expected.
>
> If only there was a way to have a thread level sys.path ... perhaps
> there is but I do not know howto.
>
> Massimo
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