Import functions in current namespace

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Markus Schreyer
<markus.schreyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> we embedded python into our application via Swig. Now we like to wrap the
> raw API functionality into a nicer more handleable module, but instead of
> repeating every function in this wrapper i thought about importing them into
> the namespace of the wrapper module. I like to give you an example of what
> we like to achive.
> Swig generates a file called "ppms.py" which contains the API classes and
> functions.
> Lets say the ppms.py contains a function called foo(). The wrapper.py should
> now import the function foo() of the module ppms into the local namespace.
> the swig module:
> def foo():
>     pass
> def foo0():
>     pass
> One possibility would be to repeat the function in the wrapper.py like:
> import ppms.py
> def foo():
>     return ppms.foo()
> def foo0():
>     return ppms.foo0()+1
> Imho this is a little ugly. So I thought about importing the content of
> ppms.py (the autgenerated one) into the namespace of the wrapper. Every
> definition of a fuction in the wrapper should overwrite the function in the
> imported module but a call to a function which is not defined in the wrapper
> goes right through.
> # wrapper.py - magic version
> "magic_import" ppms.py

I believe the magic you seek is:

from ppms import *

Cheers,
Chris

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