Mart Somermaa wrote: >>> The variant proposed by Hrvoje Niksic: >>> >>> >>> __import__(modname) >>> >>> mod = sys.modules[modname] >>> >>> looks more appealing, but comes with the drawback that sys has to be >>> imported for that purpose only. >> >> That is not a real drawback, as "sys" will certainly be present in the >> system, so the "importing" boils down to a dict lookup and a variable >> assignment. > > I meant that you have to > >>>> import sys > > only to access sys.modules (i.e. importing sys may not be necessary > otherwise).
As Hrvoje has pointed out, 'sys' is part of the internal interpreter machinery - it's there as soon as the interpreter starts. The import call for it just grabs it out of the module cache and creates a reference to it in the current namespace. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
