Module loading trickery

[Jonas Galvez]

Thanks a million, runpy is exactly what I was looking for!

I will send you a link to what I'm using it for when it's done. Then you'll
understand ;)

-- Jonas

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Jollans <thomas at jollybox.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 October 2010, it occurred to Jonas Galvez to exclaim:
> > Is there a way to "inject" something into a module right before it's
> > loaded?
> >
> > For instance, a.py defines "foo". b.py print()s "foo".
> >
> > I want to load b.py into a.py, but I need to let b.py know about "foo"
> > before it can execute.
> >
> > Is this any way to achieve this?
>
> No. That's just not how Python works. [*]
> However, you can simply import foo from a explicitly within b. Though you
> might want to rethink what you're doing. Maybe.
>
> % cat a.py
> foo = 'Meh.'
> import b
>
> % cat b.py
> from a import foo
>
> print(foo)
>
> % python a.py
> Meh.
> %
>
>
>  - Thomas
>
> [*] Actually, it is possible with runpy. But don't. Really, don't, unless
> you
> have a very good reason to do so, and judging by the way the question was
> asked, I don't think you do.
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20101005/00b75b1f/attachment.html>