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Re: Importing by file name

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Date Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:05:17 +1100
Subject Re: Importing by file name
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Am 24.11.13 04:41, schrieb Chris Angelico:
>>
>>> As part of a post on python-ideas, I wanted to knock together a quick
>>> little script that "imports" a file based on its name, in the same way
>>> that the Python interpreter will happily take an absolute pathname for
>>> the main script.
>>
>>
>> Is it imp.load_source() that you are looking for?
>
> That appears to work, but I note that it's undocumented and seems to
> be used internally only by the deprecated load_module function.  I
> expect it will likely be removed in Python 3.5.

Undocumented... that explains why I didn't know about it! But that
does appear to be what I'm looking for, so is there some equivalent
planned as a replacement?

ChrisA

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Importing by file name Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 14:41 +1100
  Re: Importing by file name Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-11-24 10:18 +0100
    Re: Importing by file name Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 02:50 -0700
    Re: Importing by file name Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 22:05 +1100
    Re: Importing by file name Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 04:37 -0700

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