Plugins in Python

[Brandon Beck]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 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.
> 

I've recently written something which pretty much does exactly this 
using the imp module.

The source is browsable and HTML viewable at:
	http://isomorphism.org/~bbeck/bot

You probably want to specifically look at the PluginManager class which 
is a class inside of bot.html.

Hope this helps some.