Execute multiple python files using a single main

Question

I have multiple python files, each with different classes and methods in it. I want to execute all those files with a main function I have separately outside all of them.

Answer 1

As previous answers suggest, if you simply need to re-use the functionality do an import.

However, if you do not know the file names in advance, you would need to use a slightly different import construct. For a file called one.py located in the same directory, use:

Contents of the one.py:

print "test"
def print_a():
    print "aa"

Your main file:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    imp = __import__("one")
    print dir(imp)

Prints out test and also gives information about the methods contained in the imported file.