Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> if not hasattr(factory, '__call__'): factory = __import__(factory)
>
> That won't quite work since the string generally isn't referring to a
> module, and due to the quirk of __import__ returning the top level
> module since that is what the interpreter needs to bind to a name as
> part of a normal import statement.
>
> This would need to look more like:
>
> if not hasattr(factory, '__call__'):
> mod_name, dot, attr = factory.rpartition('.')
> if not dot:
> raise ValueError("<something meaningful>")
> module = imputil.import_module(mod_name)
> factory = getattr(module, attr)
s/imputil/importlib/ (Oops...)
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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