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Import

Sometimes you just have a fairly nested module hierarchy, and you want to import everything. Don't worry, Satella's got you covered. Just use this function

An example use would be your module's __init__.py containing following code:

from satella.imports import import_from

__all__ = []

import_from(__path__, __name__, __all__, locals())

In this case, everything will be accessible from this module. This will examine the __all__ of your submodules, and dir() it if __all__'s not available. Note that lack of availability of __all__ will emit a log warning.

And sometimes you just need a particular class loaded, identified by a module path and class name, eg. subprocess.Popen. You can use the following function to get it: