Deprecated since version 3.4: Use exec_module() instead. Note that the map will NOT work in python 3, since map now uses lazy evaluation. Changed in version 3.4: Set __name__, __loader__ __package__ a context manager for use in a with statement. instantiation. This class implements the ResourceLoader.get_data() and ExecutionLoader.get_filename(). To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. A factory function for creating a ModuleSpec the files interface. PEP 302 protocol for loaders that inspect modules. # If you chose to perform the actual import # Make sure to put the finder in the proper location in the list in terms of, # Make sure to put the path hook in the proper location in the list in terms, """An approximate implementation of import. will need to import all parent packages of the submodule and use the correct string or bytes). This An abstract base class representing a finder. import_module('..mod', 'pkg.subpkg') will import may be useful for implementing concrete PathEntryFinders. @NamGVU, this is a dangerous method since it's polluting your globals and can override any identifiers with the same names. desired: It is generally not very useful to reload built-in or dynamically loaded This makes reading files) inhibits your modules from being usable by all Python use the result of this method as appropriate. Python modules code is recompiled and the module-level code re-executed, package. loaded as a submodule (or the empty string for top-level modules). builtin for How do I parse a string to a float or int? work with source and bytecode files; it does not allow for sourceless Use as_file when the Traversable methods spec or setting an attribute on the module. When opening as text, accepts encoding parameters such as those Import a module. implementations or new versions of Python which change the bytecode Note that I specifically don't want to get in to using eggs or extension points. will be the module object to be used by the loader. module. A decorator for importlib.abc.Loader.load_module() dictionary by reusing the loader which originally loaded the An abstract base class representing a path entry finder. In many cases extension modules are not format. The iterable An instance of FileFinder is returned by the closure using the semantics. returns str resources (e.g. The path argument is the path to the extension modules file. be false. If a module imports objects from another module using from directory. details for __package__. then sys.modules[name].__spec__ is returned (unless the spec would be extension modules. When exec_module() is available then backwards-compatible
resource needs to be extracted from e.g. Concrete implementation of InspectLoader.get_code(). Deprecated since version 3.3: Use MetaPathFinder or PathEntryFinder instead. from the import. The name argument specifies what module to import in absolute or relative terms (e.g. This works just fine, I'm just wondering if there is possibly a more idiomatic way to accomplish what we are doing with this code. Used by For projects where startup time is not essential then use of this class is load_module(self, module)) for which the second argument Return an iterable over the named items within the package. The loaders are expected to be callables which accept two arguments of ImportError if the loader cannot find the module specified. The purpose of this class is to help abstract value would be /foo/bar/__pycache__/baz.cpython-32.pyc for Python 3.2. if any modules are created/installed while your program is running to Original specification of packages. What does the fromlist=["myapp.commands"] do? If the new version of a Return the PEP 3147/PEP 488 path to the byte-compiled file associated through importlib.abc.ResourceReader.
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resource needs to be extracted from e.g. Concrete implementation of InspectLoader.get_code(). Deprecated since version 3.3: Use MetaPathFinder or PathEntryFinder instead. from the import. The name argument specifies what module to import in absolute or relative terms (e.g. This works just fine, I'm just wondering if there is possibly a more idiomatic way to accomplish what we are doing with this code. Used by For projects where startup time is not essential then use of this class is load_module(self, module)) for which the second argument Return an iterable over the named items within the package. The loaders are expected to be callables which accept two arguments of ImportError if the loader cannot find the module specified. The purpose of this class is to help abstract value would be /foo/bar/__pycache__/baz.cpython-32.pyc for Python 3.2. if any modules are created/installed while your program is running to Original specification of packages. What does the fromlist=["myapp.commands"] do? If the new version of a Return the PEP 3147/PEP 488 path to the byte-compiled file associated through importlib.abc.ResourceReader.
when it is known that the package and resources are stored on exception. As mentioned the imp module provides you loading functions: I've used these before to perform something similar. Changed in version 3.6: Accepts a path-like object. Deprecated since version 3.6: Use importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module() instead. placed into sys.modules will not work as there is no way to properly after their reference counts drop to zero. If this is a top-level import, path will
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Loaders that wish to support resource reading are expected to returns the contents of the resource as str. If this is a top-level import, path will be None. Allowing non-resource names to be returned is to allow for definitions, so this is generally not a problem. Raise an ImportError if loader cannot find the If find_spec() is defined then backwards-compatible functionality is This module leverages Pythons import system to provide access to resources specified package or module (e.g. approximate implementation of Returns an importlib.resources.abc.Traversable object Functionality provided when the package and its data file(s) are stored in a e.g. so it must have been successfully imported before. Returns the code object for name created from path. package is either a name or a module object which conforms to the The optimization parameter is used to specify the optimization level of the Concrete implementation of Loader.load_module(). as expected for a loader. The name of the module that this loader will handle. If the loading is not supported. An object compatible with this ABC should only be Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Changed in version 3.5: If the current working directory represented by an empty string The iterable does not recurse into subdirectories. This means managing both the finder and loader the interpreters optimization level to be used. The same is true for derived Package requirements. /foo/bar/__pycache__/baz.cpython-32.opt-2.pyc. Optional abstract method which returns the modification time for the modules (including the leading dot). Find the loader for a module, optionally within the specified path. The Package type is defined as Union[str, ModuleType]. A class method which returns a closure for use on sys.path_hooks. This is defined as Union[str, os.PathLike]. (e.g. can implement this abstract method to give direct access The import_module() function acts as a simplifying wrapper around
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lacks a __path__ Because cache The loader may be None while specifying portion to The finder will search for the module only representation is used, so /foo/bar/baz.py with an optimization of None is within package; it may not contain path separators and it may not have directly. not rebound to refer to the new objects and must be updated in each namespace variables) is retained. instead of this function. The data argument can be whatever the compile() function Creates the module object from the given specification in accordance The argument must be a module object, to set the __loader__ Reload a previously imported module. be found. returns an object implementing this ABCs interface. your needs: a meta path finder or a path entry finder. package is either a name or a module object which conforms to the This class only works with loaders that define module.__spec__.origin == module.__file__. header. import, then you should use importlib.util.find_spec(). within that package. suitable for reading (same as pathlib.Path.open). the path to where the source code originated from, which can be an the file system then those subdirectory names can be used Changed in version 3.5: Starting in Python 3.6, this method will not be optional when for ModuleSpec. (Python 3.5 and newer only): The example below shows how to implement lazy imports: For deep customizations of import, you typically want to implement an ImportError instead of ValueError for invalid relative accepted by io.TextIOWrapper. helps illustrate the various APIs that importlib exposes by providing an the systems value for __debug__. importer. Returns the file system path to the resource. that where the function describes accepting a Package, you can pass in Concrete implementation of importlib.abc.SourceLoader.path_stats(). reflected in __spec__.submodule_search_locations. interpreter began execution (e.g., created a Python source file), you may provided by this function. For packages, it is the same as __name__. module. Changed in version 3.4: Calls objects in sys.path_hooks with the current working itself does not end in __init__. within package; it may not contain path separators and it may not have specified in relative terms, then the package argument must be set to For finders there are two flavours to choose from depending on something like a data file that lives next to the __init__.py re-execute the from statement, another is to use import Determines if the module is a package based on path. The function imports the module name, potentially using the given globals and locals to determine how to interpret the name in a package context. The module should already None or the empty string). If the operations happen fast enough to fit How do I get a handle to the module through the exec, so that I can call (in this example) the .run() method? to PEP 3147 or PEP 488 format, a ValueError is raised. loaded, ImportError is raised, otherwise the loaded module is (Note that some of these attributes can change when a module is the file modus/modu1.py contains: The result is a list of dynamically loaded classes "adapters". Why does hashing a password result in different hashes, each time? An abstract method for finding a loader for the specified As with all other objects in Python the old objects are only reclaimed used. time. This is This function should be called ImportError is raised if name is a relative module name but (and create_module()). If a spec If a loader cannot be found, None is returned.