How to load all modules in a folder?
Could someone provide me with a good way of importing a whole directory of modules?
I have a structure like this:
/Foo
bar.py
spam.py
eggs.py
I tried just converting it to a package by adding __init__.py
and doing from Foo import *
but it didn't work the way I had hoped.
Solution 1:
List all python (.py
) files in the current folder and put them as __all__
variable in __init__.py
from os.path import dirname, basename, isfile, join
import glob
modules = glob.glob(join(dirname(__file__), "*.py"))
__all__ = [ basename(f)[:-3] for f in modules if isfile(f) and not f.endswith('__init__.py')]
Solution 2:
Add the __all__
Variable to __init__.py
containing:
__all__ = ["bar", "spam", "eggs"]
See also http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html