dynamically importing a module and function

[rkmr.em at gmail.com]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:39 PM, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
> rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:
> > data['module'], in the directory data['cwd']
>  OT: Any good reason for using a dictionary instead of a class instance
> (data.functiom, data.module, etc)?
not really, i just wanted to stick to primitive python data types.


> > If I do this from python interactive shell (linux fedora core 8) from
> > dir /home/mark it works fine:
> >
> >            cwd = data['cwd']
> >            os.chdir(cwd)
> >            print os.getcwd()
> >            module = __import__(data['module'])
> >            function = getattr(module, data['function'])
> >
> >

>  saved = sys.path
>  sys.path = data['cwd']
>  module = __import__(data['module'])
>  sys.path = saved

now the module gets loaded, but i am not able to get the function from
the module, though it works fine in the interactive-shell

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mark/work/common/funcq.py", line 62, in <module>
    if __name__ == '__main__':do()
  File "/home/mark/work/common/funcq.py", line 35, in do
    function = getattr(module, data['function'])
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'new'


this works in shell though..
>>> import os
>>> os.chdir('/home/mark/work/proj1')
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('/home/mark/work/proj1')
>>> module = __import__('app')
>>> function = getattr(module, 'new')
>>> function(1)
1