C# Class IronPython.Runtime.Importer

Gateway into importing ... called from Ops. Performs the initial import of a module and returns the module.

Gateway into importing ... called from Ops. This is called after importing the module and is used to return individual items from the module. The outer modules dictionary is then updated with the result.

Called by the __builtin__.__import__ functions (general importing) and ScriptEngine (for site.py) level indiciates whether to perform absolute or relative imports. -1 indicates both should be performed 0 indicates only absolute imports should be performed Positive numbers indicate the # of parent directories to search relative to the calling module

Given a user defined importer object as defined in PEP 302 tries to load a module. First the find_module(fullName, path) is invoked to get a loader, then load_module(fullName) is invoked

Finds a user defined importer for the given path or returns null if no importer handles this path.

Given the parent module name looks up the __path__ property.

Trys to get an existing module and if that fails fall backs to searching

Interrogates the importing module for __name__ and __path__, which determine whether the imported module (whose name is 'name') is being imported as nested module (__path__ is present) or as sibling. For sibling import, the full name of the imported module is parent.sibling For nested import, the full name of the imported module is parent.module.nested where parent.module is the mod.__name__

Attempts to load a module from sys.meta_path as defined in PEP 302. The meta_path provides a list of importer objects which can be used to load modules before searching sys.path but after searching built-in modules.