changeset 82:b57de7c38a74

add a file to import from the web
author Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
date Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:00:03 -0700
parents 9203ca3a5182
children 58eed691dca7
files pyloader/require.py setup.py
diffstat 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/pyloader/require.py	Thu Jul 28 17:00:03 2011 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+def require(url):
+    """
+    import a module from the web
+    url should be like scheme://host.name/path/to/module.py
+    """
+    import imp
+    import os
+    import tempfile
+    import urllib2
+    contents = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
+    filename = url.rsplit('/', 1)[-1]
+    module = filename.rsplit('.', 1)[-1]
+    dest = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), filename)
+    f = file(dest, 'w')
+    f.write(contents)
+    f.close()
+    return imp.load_source(module, dest)
+
+# TODO: make an equivalent method for a tarball
--- a/setup.py	Sat Jun 25 11:05:06 2011 -0700
+++ b/setup.py	Thu Jul 28 17:00:03 2011 -0700
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 except IOError: 
     description = ''
 
-version = "0.1.2"
+version = "0.1.3"
 dependencies = []
 
 setup(name='pyloader',