How to import all submodules?

Question

I have a directory structure as follows:

| main.py
| scripts
|--| __init__.py
   | script1.py
   | script2.py
   | script3.py

From ma

Answer 1

I got tired of this problem myself, so I wrote a package called automodinit to fix it. You can get it from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/automodinit/. Usage is like this:

1. Include the automodinit package into your setup.py dependencies.
2. Add the following to the beginning of the __init__.py file:

__all__ = ["I will get rewritten"]
# Don't modify the line above, or this line!
import automodinit
automodinit.automodinit(__name__, __file__, globals())
del automodinit
# Anything else you want can go after here, it won't get modified.

That's it! From now on importing a module will set __all__ to a list of .py[co] files in the module and will also import each of those files as though you had typed:

for x in __all__: import x

Therefore the effect of from M import * matches exactly import M.

automodinit is happy running from inside ZIP archives and is therefore ZIP safe.