Importing User-defined Modules

[Walter Brunswick]

I need to import modules with user-defined file extensions that differ from '.py', and also (if possible) redirect the bytecode
output of the file to a file of a user-defined extension.
I've already read PEP 302 (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0302.html), but I didn't fully understand it. Would someone [who
understands it] please be able to give me a synopsis of it, along with a few explanatory examples, or some other alternatives, if
any?

 

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:12:04 -0400 schrieb Walter Brunswick:

I need to import modules with user-defined file extensions that differ from '.py', and also (if possible) redirect the bytecode
output of the file to a file of a user-defined extension.
I've already read PEP 302 (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0302.html), but I didn't fully understand it. Would someone [who
understands it] please be able to give me a synopsis of it, along with a few explanatory examples, or some other alternatives, if
any?

You could do it like this:

Copy the file to directory which is in sys.path. Give the file
the extension ".py". Import it with __import__
(http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-6)

Copy the bytecode somewhere.

HTH,
Thomas

 

[and-google]

I need to import modules with user-defined file extensions
that differ from '.py', and also (if possible) redirect the
bytecode output of the file to a file of a user-defined
extension.

You shouldn't really need a PEP for that; you can take control of the
compile and import processes manually. See the py_compile and imp
modules.

 

[Walter Brunswick]

Thomas Guettler, your solution was very impractical besides being ignorant of my problem. Thanks for trying nonetheless.

Andrew Clover, that is exactly what I was looking for. A few examples would have been nice, but I think I can manage from here.
Thanks you.