On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 09:25 PM 7/10/2011 +0200, cool-RR wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I want to use `pkg_resources` to retrieve an image file from a Python >> package. But I want to do this without importing the actual package. Is this >> possible using `pkg_resources`, or does it import the package? >> > > It imports the package, as it needs to know what loader object was used, to > know whether it will be reading from a zipfile or whatever else. > Hm. Are you familiar with any other method that can be used to get resources without importing? If you don't, then my next direction is to combine `pkg_resources` with my "module-tasting" technique; using an `__import__` hook to do a very minimialistic import of a module/package, without importing any other modules that it tries to import. Do you think that this minimalistic import will give `pkg_resources` enough data (about the loader or otherwise) to get the resources? Ram.
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