I want to be able to import the contents of a folder and be able to call functions in classes inside them by name, like say i have example.py i would want to be able to type 'example' with python input commands and be able to run a function inside it

To achieve this I was thinking of maybe using objects such as this but i have really no idea where to start or what best practice would be.

class File():
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
    def run()
        dostuff()

i was also thinking maybe something like this would work for calling it:

files = []
for i in files:
    if i.name == name:
       i.run()

I have no idea how I would import the entire file and be able to extract it to a list. All I want to do is just be able to import all files into a folder and be able to run them by name.

I searched on the internet for a while attempting to find an answer to this but couldn't find much that was helpful so any help would be greatly appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

I am not sure I completely understand your question, but here are 2 questions and solutions that might assist

1. How to import other python files from script? Modules & What is __init__.py for?
2. Given a string "example" how can I execute the code import example? eval

CodePudding user response：

You can use __import__. It is very similar to the import keyword, but __import__ is a function you can pass string values to. If you don't know what modules are, then check out this link.