# (c) 2005 Ian Bicking and contributors; written for Paste (http://pythonpaste.org) # Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php """ 'imports' a string -- converts a string to a Python object, importing any necessary modules and evaluating the expression. Everything before the : in an import expression is the module path; everything after is an expression to be evaluated in the namespace of that module. Alternately, if no : is present, then import the modules and get the attributes as necessary. Arbitrary expressions are not allowed in that case. """ def eval_import(s): """ Import a module, or import an object from a module. A module name like ``foo.bar:baz()`` can be used, where ``foo.bar`` is the module, and ``baz()`` is an expression evaluated in the context of that module. Note this is not safe on arbitrary strings because of the eval. """ if ':' not in s: return simple_import(s) module_name, expr = s.split(':', 1) module = import_module(module_name) obj = eval(expr, module.__dict__) return obj def simple_import(s): """ Import a module, or import an object from a module. A name like ``foo.bar.baz`` can be a module ``foo.bar.baz`` or a module ``foo.bar`` with an object ``baz`` in it, or a module ``foo`` with an object ``bar`` with an attribute ``baz``. """ parts = s.split('.') module = import_module(parts[0]) name = parts[0] parts = parts[1:] last_import_error = None while parts: name += '.' + parts[0] try: module = import_module(name) parts = parts[1:] except ImportError as e: last_import_error = e break obj = module while parts: try: obj = getattr(module, parts[0]) except AttributeError: raise ImportError( "Cannot find %s in module %r (stopped importing modules with error %s)" % (parts[0], module, last_import_error)) parts = parts[1:] return obj def import_module(s): """ Import a module. """ mod = __import__(s) parts = s.split('.') for part in parts[1:]: mod = getattr(mod, part) return mod def try_import_module(module_name): """ Imports a module, but catches import errors. Only catches errors when that module doesn't exist; if that module itself has an import error it will still get raised. Returns None if the module doesn't exist. """ try: return import_module(module_name) except ImportError as e: if not getattr(e, 'args', None): raise desc = e.args[0] if not desc.startswith('No module named '): raise desc = desc[len('No module named '):] # If you import foo.bar.baz, the bad import could be any # of foo.bar.baz, bar.baz, or baz; we'll test them all: parts = module_name.split('.') for i in range(len(parts)): if desc == '.'.join(parts[i:]): return None raise