Package and import all files from directory

file.py

import importdir
importdir.do("features", globals())

importdir.py

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# http://gitlab.com/aurelien-lourot/importdir
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import os
import re
import sys

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# Interface
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def do(path, env):
    """ Imports all modules residing directly in directory "path" into the provided environment
        (usually the callers environment). A typical call:
        importdir.do("example_dir", globals())
    """
    __do(path, env)


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# Implementation
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# File name of a module:
__module_file_regexp = "(.+)\.py(c?)$"


def __get_module_names_in_dir(path):
    """ Returns a set of all module names residing directly in directory "path".
    """
    result = set()

    # Looks for all python files in the directory (not recursively) and add
    # their name to result:
    for entry in os.listdir(path):
        if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, entry)):
            regexp_result = re.search(__module_file_regexp, entry)
            if regexp_result:  # is a module file name
                result.add(regexp_result.groups()[0])

    return result


def __do(path, env):
    """ Implements do().
    """
    sys.path.append(path)  # adds provided directory to list we can import from
    # for each found module...
    for module_name in sorted(__get_module_names_in_dir(path)):
        env[module_name] = __import__(module_name)              # ... import