Oct 28, 2014 · In simple words, this is all about programmer convenience. At the core level, they simply import all functionality of the module. import module: When you use import module then …

May 20, 2012 · what if a is already imported using importlib e.g a = importlib.import_module("a"), how can we then import b? from a import b does not work (no module name 'a'), if we don't …

you made my day. To others .. this is important if you have lot of local modules. Local module is used by other local module you need to install your local module first and make it part of your …

Import a module. The name argument specifies what module to import in absolute or relative terms (e.g. either pkg.mod or ..mod). If the name is specified in relative terms, then the …

For everything else, the inspect module is correct: import inspect import <module_to_inspect> as module functions = inspect.getmembers(module, inspect.isfunction) This gives a list of 2 …

Solution: If you can't rename the module to match Python naming conventions, create a new module to act as an intermediary: New module foo_proxy.py: tmp = __import__('foo-bar') …

When you import a module, Python looks if this module is in sys.modules dictionary. If not, it runs the module, and puts the resulting module object in sys.modules. So, to unimport a module, …

By default, you can't. When importing a file, Python only searches the directory that the entry-point script is running from and sys.path which includes locations such as the package …

Jun 28, 2009 · # subfile.py OR some_other_python_file_somewhere_else.py import random # This is a standard package that can be imported anywhere. import top_level_file # Now, …

Python has a concept of packages, which is basically a folder containing one or more modules, and zero-or-more packages. When we launch python, there are two ways of doing it: Asking …