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The following function emulates what was the standard import statement
up to Python
1.4 (no hierarchical module names). (This
<em>implementation
</em> wouldn't work in that version, since
<tt class=
"function">find_module()
</tt> has been extended and
<tt class=
"function">load_module()
</tt> has been added in
1.4.)
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def __import__(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=None):
# Fast path: see if the module has already been imported.
# If any of the following calls raises an exception,
# there's a problem we can't handle -- let the caller handle it.
fp, pathname, description = imp.find_module(name)
return imp.load_module(name, fp, pathname, description)
# Since we may exit via an exception, close fp explicitly.
A more complete example that implements hierarchical module names and
includes a
<tt class=
"function">reload()
</tt><a id='l2h-
723' xml:id='l2h-
723'
></a> function can be
found in the module
<tt class=
"module">knee
</tt><a id='l2h-
724' xml:id='l2h-
724'
></a>. The
<tt class=
"module">knee
</tt> module can be found in
<span class=
"file">Demo/imputil/
</span> in the
Python source distribution.
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