automatic from module import * expansion

[Keith Jackson]

Does anybody know of a tool that will take a module as input, look for
any wildcard imports, and then identify what symbols in the module come
from which wildcard import? It could then expand out the from module
import * to from module import foo, bar. It might need to ask the user
on this, since they might want the wildcard import for something
special, but it would still be *much* nicer then expanding the imports
out by hand.

Apologies ahead of time if I've missed something obvious. I did spend
some quality time with google, and couldn't find anything.
cheers,
--keith

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: automatic from module import * expansion

Keith Jackson wrote:
[color=blue]
> Does anybody know of a tool that will take a module as input, look for
> any wildcard imports, and then identify what symbols in the module come
> from which wildcard import? It could then expand out the from module
> import * to from module import foo, bar. It might need to ask the user
> on this, since they might want the wildcard import for something
> special, but it would still be *much* nicer then expanding the imports
> out by hand.
>
> Apologies ahead of time if I've missed something obvious. I did spend
> some quality time with google, and couldn't find anything.[/color]

No - and given that you could do

--- module.py ---
import random

for i in xrange(random.r andint(10, 100)):
globals()["FOO%i" % i] = "hallo"

--- module.py ---

there is not a chance of such a tool being more than a heuristic. Such
things only work in a static typed world where you know the number of
declarations.

Diez

[astyonax]

Re: automatic from module import * expansion

Sorry but I doesn't understand your need. If you need a ''dinamic''
import, you can use __import__(modu le)