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Thu Apr 19 07:30:46 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/091149.html

Of course, I meant to respond to Markus, and not Duncan... whos solution was
much better then mine I notice :)

"Stephen" <news at myNOSPAM.org> wrote in message
news:PYzD6.179374$LO3.28364927 at typhoon.we.rr.com...
>     The first way to do this that pops into my mind is the following. It
> will execute the import statement in the global namespace. This seems
> inherantly evil, There's got to be a better approach to what you're doing
> this for. Heh. Maybe its just because I find 'exec' to be strangely evil
all
> on its own.
>
> def import_module(module):
>     exec "import %s" % module in globals()
>     do_stuff("print os.sep")
>
> --Stephen
> (replace NOSPAM with 'seraph' to respond in email)
>
>
> "Duncan Booth" <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Xns908870BCC98BFduncanrcpcouk at 127.0.0.1...
> > "Markus Gritsch" <gritsch at iue.tuwien.ac.at> wrote in <9bmb56$gjs$1
> > @news.tuwien.ac.at>:
> >
> > > And here the problem arises: The name os is not known in do_stuff().
Is
> > > there a way to make the namespace of import_module() available in
> > > do_stuff()?
> > >
> >
> > def do_stuff(stuff, v):
> >     exec stuff in v
> >
> > def import_module(module):
> >     v = {}
> >     exec 'import ' + module in v
> >     do_stuff('print os.sep', v)
> >
> > import_module('os')
> >
> >
> > --
> > Duncan Booth
> > duncan at dales.rmplc.co.uk
> > int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
> > "\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?
>
>

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interesting Namespace problem