How do I make a list of imported classes in Python?

Question

from module import a, b, c
foo(a)
foo(b)
foo(c)

Is there a way to avoid having to call foo(x) for each imported object?

Some context: a, b, c are webpage classes and foo is a route() function that creates a route for each webpage.

Update: There will be a growing list of imported classes in the main module as the application grows. I mentioned a, b, and c simply as an example. I am looking for something like import a, b, c to classes_list and then I can iterate over the classes_list instead of calling foo on each of the imported classes.

Answer 1

from module import a, b, c is already basically just shorthand for

import module


for x in ['a', 'c', 'c']:
    globals()[x] = getattr(module, x)

You can insert your own wrapper around the value injected into the global namespace.

import module

for x in ['a', 'b', 'c']:
    globals()[x] = getattr(module, x)
    # foo(getattr(module, x))  # If you don't actually need the global name

For multiple modules, you can define a dict mapping module names to class names and use importlib.import_module , rather than an import statement, to do the actual import.

from importlib import import_module

classes = {'a': 'A', 'b': 'B'}

for m, c in classes.items():
    globals()[c] = getattr(import_module(m), c)

Answer 2

Assuming you have no other imports, you could iterate over globals().items() to gather all the classes. You may need to filter further if there are additional classes in your overall imports.

import inspect
from pandas import DataFrame, Grouper, ExcelFile

imps = globals().items()
filtered_imps = [x[1] for x in imps if inspect.isclass(x[1])]
print(filtered_imps)

Produces:

[<class '_frozen_importlib.BuiltinImporter'>, <class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>, <class 'pandas.core.groupby.grouper.Grouper'>, <class 'pandas.io.excel._base.ExcelFile'>]

Then you can foo() over the list as necessary in a loop or as part of the comprehension, perhaps using a try... except to deal with exceptions on the way.

Answer 3

You could add the imports to a list then use a for loop:

import_list =  [a,b,c]

for x in import_list:
   foo(x)