run-time inclusion of files

[Stephen Fairchild]

travis+ml-python at subspacefield.org wrote:

> I'm interested in three seperate problems:
> 
> 1) being able to import a file that isn't in the standard module include
> path

sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/module"
module = __import__("module")
del sys.path[0]

Ideally this goes into a function, possibly with os.path.split to break
apart absolute paths.
 
> 2) being able to import a file whose name is specified in a python string

sys = __import__("sys")

> 3) being able to reload the file if it changes on disk

sys = reload(sys) # sys must have been imported already

Maybe use in conjunction with python-inotify and or Gamin for change
detection.
-- 
Stephen Fairchild