import from string?

[Mike]

Yes exactly,
I've also found the new_module function in the imp module.
Thanks

"Duncan Booth" <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Mike" <mgould at orchestream.com> wrote in news:1012311260.582359 at lave:
>
> > I'd like all the scripts to be imported as modules to prevent
> > namespace clashes and so that the scopeing behaviour is as the script
> > authors expect. The problem is that I can't see how to import python
> > code held in a string instead of a file.
> >
> > I've looked at using the __import__ function but in all cases this
> > looks for a built-in module or a file.
> > I've also tried using exec and specifying the local and global scopes
> > explicitly but this requires the namespaces to be created beforehand.
> > Using the class statement to create namespaces is probably not the way
> > forward and providing ordinary dictionary objects doesn't seem to work
> > properly.
>
> Is this what you want?
> >>> import new
> >>> fred = new.module('fred')
> >>> exec('def f():\n  print "hello"\n  print x\n', fred.__dict__)
> >>> fred.x = 5
> >>> fred.f()
> hello
> 5
> >>>
>
>
> --
> Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
> int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
> "\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?