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Getattr on package in Python

In Python, is there an equivalent of doing getattr() on a module for packages? In other words, is there a way to search for a function within a package like the one below?

Intents/
|-- __init__.py
|-- foo.py
|-- bar.py
|-- baz.py
Solution

  • You can use getattr to get any object from a python module:

    In [4]: cat bla.py

def foo():
    pass

In [5]: import bla


In [6]: getattr( bla, 'foo')
Out[6]: <function bla.foo>

    So you can walk all modules in a package, and try... except with getattr to find which module contains the desired class or function (you can also import any other top level object)