Plugins in Python

[Erik Max Francis]

Lars Yencken wrote:

> I'm trying to do plugins for a program I'm writing in Python, and I'm
> not
> sure how exactly to do it. Basically what I want it to be able to
> write a
> module which loads every python file in a directory and stores an
> instance
> of each one that loaded successfully.

The most obvious implementation is simply to have them each imported as
modules with __import__, and define some kind of simple
initialization/shutdown API that will be called upon import.

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