相当于lua的loadfile的Python

Question

In lua there is a function called loadfile , this function allows the program to parse a .lua file into the current project. All the functions and variables work as if they were written in the same file.

This is useful for loading plugins. I am trying to port a telegram bot over to python but cannot find a function that allows me to load a .py file and have the functions be in the context of the file.

I have tried python's execfile and importing the file but that doesn't allow for the functions of the loaded file to be in scope of the initial file.

(ie fileA.py loads fileB.py. fileA has function "doThis". fileB can't access "doThis" using execfile)

How can I achieve the same thing in python as loadfile for lua?

I am using python 2

Answer 1

You generally shouldn't do this, since wildcard imports can make code harder to debug, but:

from other_module import *

This imports everything defined in other_module into the current module's global namespace. It's not exactly the same, but it's as close as you'll get.

execfile("other_module.py", globals())

is very similar, except it won't cache the module in sys.modules .