import autoload

What is autoloading?

Autoloading means the automatic loading of the files required for your module. That is including the files required for your application without explicitly including each file with from modulename import filename construct.

1. problem

• let directory struct be like

main.py
project_dir/
|-- example.py
|-- README.md
|-- setup.py
|-- test_package
|   |-- __init__.py
|   |-- package_file_0.py
|   |-- package_file_1.py
|   |-- package_file_2.py

• and code

"""example.py"""
from test_package import package_file_0
from test_package import package_file_1
...
from test_package import package_file_n

but we are too lazy to type a lot letters

2. solution

• install

pip install -UIv "import-autoload>=0.2.4a"

• add two lines to __init__.py

"""__init__.py"""
from autoload import autoload

__all__ = autoload()

"""example.py"""
from test_package import *

• or variant

"""main.py"""
from autoload import autoload

autoload("project_dir.test_package", pattern="package_file_[0123]")

parameters

1. module_name path to module dir with dot separator, like in from module_name import, default current module
2. pattern like in fnmatch(filename, pattern), default *.py

attention

• it seems to require python version >= 3.4. if you were able to test an early version, please contact me

how it work

• checks path to module and call importlib.import_module()

License

• It's opensource and free software, see the LICENSE for more details

similar projects

• import-export
• another autoloader

TODO

• handle system path separator for module_name