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Callable modules! Indexable modules!?

Ever wanted to call a module directly, or index it? Or just sick of seeing from foo import foo in your examples?

Give your module the awesome power of an object, or maybe just save a little typing, with xmod.

xmod is a tiny library that extends a module to do things that normally only a class could do - handy for modules that “just do one thing”.

EXAMPLE: Make a module callable as a function

# In your_module.py
import xmod

@xmod
def a_function():
    return 'HERE!!'


# Test at the command line
>>> import your_module
>>> your_module()
HERE!!

EXAMPLE: Make a module look like an object

# In your_module.py
import xmod

xmod(list(), __name__)

# Test at the command line
>>> import your_module
>>> assert your_module == []
>>> your_module.extend(range(3))
>>> print(your_module)
[0, 1, 2]

API

xmod()

xmod(
     extension=None,
     name=None,
     full=None,
     props=None,
     omit=None,
     mutable=False,
)

(xmod.py, 72-180)

Extend the system module at name with any Python object.

The original module is replaced in sys.modules by a proxy class which delegates attributes to the original module, and then adds attributes from the extension.

In the most common use case, the extension is a callable and only the __call__ method is delegated, so xmod can also be used as a decorator, both with and without parameters.

ARGUMENTS
extension

The object whose methods and properties extend the namespace. This includes magic methods like __call__ and __getitem__.

name

The name of this symbol in sys.modules. If this is None then xmod will use extension.__module__.

This only needs to be be set if extension is _not_ a function or class defined in the module that’s being extended.

If the name argument is given, it should almost certainly be __name__.

full

If False, just add extension as a callable.

If True, extend the module with all members of extension.

If None, the default, add the extension if it’s a callable, otherwise extend the module with all members of extension.

mutable:

If True, the attributes on the proxy are mutable and write through to the underlying module. If False, the default, attributes on the proxy cannot be changed.

omit

A list of methods _not_ to delegate from the proxy to the extension.

If omit is None, it defaults to xmod.OMIT, which seems to work well.

(automatically generated by doks on 2020-11-16T17:28:35.769504)

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