How to import all submodules?

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Edit: Here’s one way to recursively import everything at runtime…

(Contents of __init__.py in top package directory)

import pkgutil

__all__ = []
for loader, module_name, is_pkg in pkgutil.walk_packages(__path__):
    __all__.append(module_name)
    _module = loader.find_module(module_name).load_module(module_name)
    globals()[module_name] = _module

I’m not using __import__(__path__+'.'+module_name) here, as it’s difficult to properly recursively import packages using it. If you don’t have nested sub-packages, and wanted to avoid using globals()[module_name], though, it’s one way to do it.

There’s probably a better way, but this is the best I can do, anyway.

Original Answer (For context, ignore othwerwise. I misunderstood the question initially):

What does your scripts/__init__.py look like? It should be something like:

import script1
import script2
import script3
__all__ = ['script1', 'script2', 'script3']

You could even do without defining __all__, but things (pydoc, if nothing else) will work more cleanly if you define it, even if it’s just a list of what you imported.

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