Dynamic importing of modules followed by instantiation of objects with a certain baseclass from said modules

Question

I\'m writing an application. No fancy GUI:s or anything, just a plain old console application. This application, lets call it App, needs to be able to load plugins on startu

Answer 1

You would make this a lot easier if you forced some constraints on the plugin writer, for example that all plugins must be packages that contain a load_plugin( app, config) function that returns a Plugin instance. Then all you have to do is try to import these packages and run the function.