dynaport 0.0.4

dynamic module importer

dynaport

Dynaport serves as a python module that will enable you to dynamically import modules from anywhere on the filesystem. This module acts as a wrapper of the python import library to offer an easy to use syntax for dynamically importing modules in python.

installation

pip3 install dynaport

functions

Dynaport(config="/path/to/config.json")

• instantiation of the Dynaport class, has an optional parameter config to load a config file.

Dynaport.get_module(name="module_name", path="/path/to/module.py")

• loads and returns the module

Dynaport.get_modules(modules=["module1", "module2", "module3"], dict=True)

• loads and returns multiple modules as a tuple, optional dict param to load the modules into a dict.
• NOTE: module names need to be unique or else they will be overwritten when creating the dict

config file

Dynaport is able to use a json configuration file to define filepaths to modules you want to import.

The current format of the configuration file is as follows:

{
    "modules": {
        "module_name": "/path/to/module.py"
    }
}

future work

• expand on the ability to define configuration files to quickly import modules
• allow paths with environment variables to be passed into the program
• creating compatible versions for both python2 and python3