Automatical extraction of openalea factories for python modules and packages

TODO: bad name. The module is not parsed but imported.

core.factory_parser.add_factory(pkg, fct, base_dir=None)

Add a (Node) Factory for function fct into package pkg

If function does not contain suitable meta_info, try to take it from pkg_info

core.factory_parser.import_module(module_name, search_path=[])

load module_name

Inputs:

• module_name

  string with the name of the module as it is given to import (i.e. containing package dependancies separated by '.')

• search_path

  Additional search directories, given as a list of string, to look for module_name (and its parent package) if it is in not in sys.path.

core.factory_parser.parse_module(module, module_dir=None)

Create an openalea package from a python module

:Inputs::

module:

• either a python module
• or the full name of the module to parse (e.g. 'pkg.sub_pkg.module')

module_dir:

Base directory of module if it is not in the python path.