Using remote source code

[pyapplico]

Is there any possible way that I can place a .py file on the internet,
and use that source code in an .py file on my computer?

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Re: Using remote source code

[pyapplico]

On Mar 25, 3:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there any possible way that I can place a .py file on the internet,
> > and use that source code in an .py file on my computer?
>
> You can write an import hook in any way you like; see
>  .
>
> Here's a trivial example (bereft of much error checking, etc).  I've
> uploaded tohttp://www.aleax.it/foo.pya toy module w/contents:
>
> def foo(): return 'foo'
>
> Here's a tiny program to import said module from my site:
>
> import urllib2, sys, new
>
> theurl = 'http://www.aleax.it/'
>
> class Examp(object):
> names = set([ 'foo', ])
> def find_module(self, fullname, path=None):
> if fullname not in self.names: return None
> self.foo = urllib2.urlopen(theurl+fullname+'.py')
> return self
> def load_module(self, fullname):
> module = sys.modules.setdefault(fullname,
>   new.module(fullname))
> module.__file__ = fullname
> module.__loader__ = self
> exec self.foo.read() in module.__dict__
> return module
>
> def hooker(pathitem):
> print 'hooker %r' % pathitem
> if pathitem.startswith(theurl): return Examp()
> raise ImportError
>
> sys.path_hooks.append(hooker)
> sys.path.append(theurl)
>
> import foo
> print foo.foo()
>
> Alex

Thanks for your help, now I can continue building my source code
generator. :)

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