At 12:38 AM 7/11/2011 +0200, cool-RR wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, P.J. Eby
><<mailto:pje@telecommunity.com>pje(a)telecommunity.com> wrote:
>At 09:25 PM 7/10/2011 +0200, cool-RR wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I want to use `pkg_resources` to retrieve an image file from a
>Python package. But I want to do this without importing the actual
>package. Is this possible using `pkg_resources`, or does it import the package?
>
>
>It imports the package, as it needs to know what loader object was
>used, to know whether it will be reading from a zipfile or whatever else.
>
>
>Hm. Are you familiar with any other method that can be used to get
>resources without importing?
>
>If you don't, then my next direction is to combine `pkg_resources`
>with my "module-tasting" technique; using an `__import__` hook to do
>a very minimialistic import of a module/package, without importing
>any other modules that it tries to import. Do you think that this
>minimalistic import will give `pkg_resources` enough data (about the
>loader or otherwise) to get the resources?
Dunno. It looks for a __loader__ attribute, so that's got to be
there. (Unless it's a normal filesystem package or module; that's
the case where __loader__ is not normally set.)