[Python-Dev] import problems (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 23:25:26 CET 2008

Mart Somermaa wrote:

But I'm still +1 for adding 'tail'/'submodule'/'tailmodule' argument to import instead of providing an almost identical copy in imp.importmodule().

Let me know which of the approaches is desired (if any) and I'll add tests and update docs.

Have you considered using runpy.run_module() instead? i.e. do you actually need the resulting module object, or just the global namespace produced by running its code?

If the latter, then run_module() is a much better way of going about it as it has (slightly) fewer side effects on the import system's internals.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list