On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:36 AM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 12:38 AM 7/11/2011 +0200, cool-RR wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, P.J. Eby <<mailto:[email protected] >> **>[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? >> > > Dunno. It looks for a __loader__ attribute, so that's got to be there. > (Unless it's a normal filesystem package or module; that's the case where > __loader__ is not normally set.) > > Yes, I got it to work! So now I can use `pkg_resources` on a package without having to fully import you. After my code is finalized I'll describe the solution and show the code. Ram.
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