[albatross-users] Importing page modules

[Matt Goodall]

Hi all,

Some time ago I raised an issue with importing page modules and how it 
affected sys.modules. It's not been resolved yet although that's not 
what this message is about. Someone recently posted to python-list with 
a related issue so I thought I'd mention it here too:

Generated code that is exec-ed (to simulate import) cannot import os.path??
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-November/197043.html

This is one of the problems I came across when inventing an imaginary 
package for the page modules to live in. IIRC, I ended up loading page 
modules as modules with names like albatross_page_home rather than using 
something a bit more obvious like albatross.pages.home.

Anyway, in the end I abandoned the above approach (too magical for me 
and I don't like hacking with the Python import mechanism) and went with 
execfile() even though that also has issues. The history of that 
conversion will be in the archives if anyone is interested.

Cheers, Matt

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