Question

Although it does not seem possible, I wanted to put this out there to see if others had some innovative solutions to ‘dynamically loading and executing code in python’

So if one saved code in a database, one could read it and ‘exec it’, however if one wanted to use it in a similar fashion to the filesystem, one would need to

1. ‘save and load the compiled .pyc’
2. create an ‘import dbimp’ ala ‘import imp’ etc.

any pointers? ideas? thoughts?

Answer 1

See PEP 302: New Import Hooks, for details on how to hook the importer.

Python 3.1 has an importlib, designed to make hooking the importer a bit easier.