how to import a module from a arbitraty path?

[Andy Leszczynski]

I have a program which is going to dynamicly load components from some
arbitrary defined paths. How to do that?

A.

 

[Simon Brunning]

I have a program which is going to dynamicly load components from some
arbitrary defined paths. How to do that?

You can locate them with os.walk and fnmatch. Then you can temporarily
add the directory to sys,path, and import using __import__().

 

[Peter Hansen]

You can locate them with os.walk and fnmatch. Then you can temporarily
add the directory to sys,path, and import using __import__().

And if you do that, note the difference between adding your temporary
directories at the start of sys.path and at the end of it... (this is
critical to understand if any of the dynamically loaded module names
might collide with names of any other packages in your sys.path,
including standard module names).

-Peter

 

[Maksim Kasimov]

I have a program which is going to dynamicly load components from some
arbitrary defined paths. How to do that?

A.

import sys
sys.path.append('/yourpath/libs')