How to make global imports from a function?
Solution 1:
Imported modules are just variables - names bound to some values. So all you need is to import them and make them global with global keyword.
Example:
>>> math
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'math' is not defined
>>> def f():
... global math
... import math
...
>>> f()
>>> math
<module 'math' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/math.so'>
Solution 2:
You can make the imports global within a function like this:
def my_imports(module_name):
globals()[module_name] = __import__(module_name)