How to find all child modules in Python?

Question

While it is fairly trivial in Python to import a \"child\" module into another module and list its attributes, it becomes slightly more difficult when you want to import all

Answer 1

The solution above traversing the filesystem for finding submodules is ok as long as you implement every plugin as a filesystem based module.

A more flexible way would be an explicit plugin list in your main module, and have every plugin (whether a module created by file, dynamically, or even instance of a class) adding itself to that list explicitly. Maybe via a registerPlugin function.

Remember: "explicit is better than implicit" is part of the zen of python.