import help

[placid]

Hi all,

How do i import a module that has an hypen/dash (-) in its name ? I get
a SytaxError exception

Cheers

[Gary Herron]

Re: import help

placid wrote:

Hi all,
>
How do i import a module that has an hypen/dash (-) in its name ? I get
a SytaxError exception
>
Cheers
>
>

You can't do that directly. However, the internals of the import
mechanism are available to the programmer through a module named imp. It
allows you to import a file whose name is specified in a string -- that
should work for you.

Gary Herron

[Rob Wolfe]

Re: import help


placid wrote:

Hi all,
>
How do i import a module that has an hypen/dash (-) in its name ? I get
a SytaxError exception

You can use function __import__.

>>print open("-test.py").read( )

def fun2():
return "Hello from -test !"

>>import -test

File "<stdin>", line 1
import -test
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>__import__( "-test", globals(), locals(), [])

<module '-test' from '-test.pyc'>

But here is another problem:

>>-test.fun2()

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'test' is not defined

>>import sys
>>sys.modules["-test"].fun2()

'Hello from -test !'

Regards,
Rob