Can I import a file without file extension .py?

[Jia Lu]

Hi all
I wonder if I can import a file with other file extensions ?

Can I do that only with python?

Thank you

Jia Lu

 

[Ben Finney]

I wonder if I can import a file with other file extensions ?

I use this function in most of my test infrastructures, to import
programs as modules for unit testing.

def make_module_from_file(module_name, file_name):
""" Make a new module object from the code in specified file """

from types import ModuleType
module = ModuleType(module_name)

module_file = open(file_name, 'r')
exec module_file in module.__dict__

return module

 

[Jia Lu]

def make_module_from_file(module_name, file_name):
""" Make a new module object from the code in specified file """

from types import ModuleType
module = ModuleType(module_name)

module_file = open(file_name, 'r')
exec module_file in module.__dict__

Thank you very much.
And can you tell me what does " exec module_file in module.__dict__ "
mean?

Thanx

 

[Dustan]

Thank you very much.
And can you tell me what does " exec module_file in module.__dict__ "
mean?

Thanx

http://docs.python.org/ref/exec.html

It executes whatever code is in module_file and dumps all variables
defined in the process into module.__dict__.