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POInjecting "global imports" into Python functions
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copied!<h3>Short, but complete, summary</h3> <p>I want to allow users of my function (a class factory) to inject/overwrite global imports when using my function (longer explanation of rationale below). But there are about 10 different variables that could be passed in and it adds a number of very repetitive lines to the code. (granted, also makes it more complicated to call too :P) Right now, I'm doing something like the following (just simplifying all of this). To make it runnable, I'm using a dummy class, but in the actual script I'd be using <code>import pkg1</code>, etc. Figured this was clearer and shorter than a class factory, etc.</p> <pre><code>class Dummy(object): pass pkg1, pkg2 = Dummy(), Dummy() pkg1.average = lambda *args : sum(args) / len(args) pkg2.get_lengths = lambda *args : map(len, args) def get_average(*args, **kwargs): average = kwargs.get("average") or pkg1.average get_lengths = kwargs.get("get_lengths") or pkg2.get_lengths return average(*get_lengths(*args)) adjusted_length = lambda *args: map(len, args) + [15] print get_average([1,2], [10, 4, 5, 6]) == 3 # True print get_average([1,2], [10, 4, 5, 6], get_lengths=adjusted_length) == 7 # True </code></pre> <h3>Related SO questions</h3> <p>This stack overflow post: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1450275/modifying-locals-in-python">Modifying locals in Python</a>, seemed particularly relevant and initially I wanted to just overwrite locals by storing to the locals dictionary but (1) it didn't seem to work, and (2) it seems like it was a bad idea. So, I'm wondering if there's <em>another</em> way to do it.</p> <p>This one looked promising ( <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2406586/adding-an-object-to-another-modules-globals-in-python">Adding an object to another module's globals in python</a> ), but I'm not really sure how to access the globals for the current file in the same way as a module. (and this question - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11594090/python-mutating-globals-to-dynamically-put-things-in-scope">python: mutating `globals` to dynamically put things in scope</a> - doesn't really apply, since I'm (ultimately) using this to define classes).</p> <p>I guess I could wrap everything in an exec statement (like this post - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2904274/globals-and-locals-in-python-exec">globals and locals in python exec()</a> ), but that's both fiddly and means that it's much harder to do error checking/linting/etc.</p> <p>So here's what I'd <em>like</em> to do. (NOTE: I would have used <code>from pkg1 import average</code> AND <code>from pkg2 import get_lengths</code> but I wanted the example to be clearer (need to copy pkg1 and pkg2 above to run this))</p> <pre><code>average = pkg1.average get_lengths = pkg2.get_lengths def get_average(*args, **kwargs): localvars = locals() for k in ("get_lengths", "average"): if kwargs.get(k, None) and kwargs[k] is not None: localvars[k] = kwargs[k] return average(*get_lengths(*args)) print get_average([1,2], [10, 4, 5, 6]) == 3 #True print get_average([1,2], [10, 4, 5, 6], get_lengths=adjusted_length) == 7 # False, is 3 </code></pre> <h3>Rationale for my specific use-case</h3> <p>Right now, I'm trying to write a dynamically-generated class factory (to use as an SQLAlchemy mixin), but I want to allow users of my class to pass in alternate constructors, so they can use SQLAlchemy adapters, etc.</p> <p>For example, Flask-SQLAlchemy provides the same <em>interface</em> as SQLAlchemy, but provides a custom object/class (<code>db</code>) that wraps around all the SQLAlchemy objects to provide more features.</p>

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