Namespacing and classes
Import them all within __init__.py
, and then have the consumer import the package.
from .module1 import Class1
from .module2 import Class2
...
If you want to avoid hardcoding module paths, file, class, and function names in many places, you could do something like the following which dynamically imports (almost) all the Python files it finds in a package's subdirectory.
The key is remembering that the __init__.py
file is a largely unconstrained Python script itself, and is therefore free to perform fairly sophisticated processing of its own to determine what's in the package's namespace.
File package\__init__.py
:
def _import_package_files():
""" Dynamically import all the Python modules in this module's sub directory. """
import os
import sys
import traceback
package_path = os.path.split(__file__)[0]
package_directory = os.path.split(package_path)[1]
for fn in os.listdir(package_directory):
globals_, locals_ = globals(), locals()
# process all python files in directory that don't start with underscore
if fn[0] != '_' and fn.split('.')[-1] in ('py', 'pyw'):
modulename = fn.split('.')[0] # filename without extension
subpackage = ".".join([package_directory, modulename])
try:
module = __import__(subpackage, globals_, locals_, [modulename])
except:
traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
raise # reraise exception
_import_package_files()
File package\Class1.py
:
class Class1(object):
pass
File package\Class2.py
:
class Class2(object):
pass
File package\Class3.py
:
class Class3(object):
pass
File usepackage.py
:
import package
print(package.Class1)
print(package.Class2)
print(package.Class3)
Output from running usepackage.py
:
<module 'package.Class1' from 'C:\Files\package\Class1.pyc'>
<module 'package.Class2' from 'C:\Files\package\Class2.pyc'>
<module 'package.Class3' from 'C:\Files\package\Class3.pyc'>