I arrived here looking for a minimal plugin architecture, and found a lot of things that all seemed like overkill to me. So, I've implemented Super Simple Python Plugins. To use it, you create one or more directories and drop a special __init__.py file in each one. Importing those directories will cause all other Python files to be loaded as submodules, and their name(s) will be placed in the __all__ list. Then it's up to you to validate/initialize/register those modules. There's an example in the README file.

扩展@edomaur的回答，我建议看看simple_plugins(无耻的插件)，这是一个简单的插件框架，灵感来自Marty Alchin的工作。

一个基于项目README的简短使用示例:

# All plugin info
>>> BaseHttpResponse.plugins.keys()
['valid_ids', 'instances_sorted_by_id', 'id_to_class', 'instances',
 'classes', 'class_to_id', 'id_to_instance']

# Plugin info can be accessed using either dict...
>>> BaseHttpResponse.plugins['valid_ids']
set([304, 400, 404, 200, 301])

# ... or object notation
>>> BaseHttpResponse.plugins.valid_ids
set([304, 400, 404, 200, 301])

>>> BaseHttpResponse.plugins.classes
set([<class '__main__.NotFound'>, <class '__main__.OK'>,
     <class '__main__.NotModified'>, <class '__main__.BadRequest'>,
     <class '__main__.MovedPermanently'>])

>>> BaseHttpResponse.plugins.id_to_class[200]
<class '__main__.OK'>

>>> BaseHttpResponse.plugins.id_to_instance[200]
<OK: 200>

>>> BaseHttpResponse.plugins.instances_sorted_by_id
[<OK: 200>, <MovedPermanently: 301>, <NotModified: 304>, <BadRequest: 400>, <NotFound: 404>]

# Coerce the passed value into the right instance
>>> BaseHttpResponse.coerce(200)
<OK: 200>

当我搜索Python Decorators时，发现了一个简单但有用的代码片段。它可能不符合你的需求，但非常鼓舞人心。

Scipy高级Python#插件注册系统

class TextProcessor(object):
    PLUGINS = []

    def process(self, text, plugins=()):
        if plugins is ():
            for plugin in self.PLUGINS:
                text = plugin().process(text)
        else:
            for plugin in plugins:
                text = plugin().process(text)
        return text

    @classmethod
    def plugin(cls, plugin):
        cls.PLUGINS.append(plugin)
        return plugin


@TextProcessor.plugin
class CleanMarkdownBolds(object):
    def process(self, text):
        return text.replace('**', '')

用法:

processor = TextProcessor()
processed = processor.process(text="**foo bar**", plugins=(CleanMarkdownBolds, ))
processed = processor.process(text="**foo bar**")

module_example.py:

def plugin_main(*args, **kwargs):
    print args, kwargs

loader.py:

def load_plugin(name):
    mod = __import__("module_%s" % name)
    return mod

def call_plugin(name, *args, **kwargs):
    plugin = load_plugin(name)
    plugin.plugin_main(*args, **kwargs)

call_plugin("example", 1234)

它当然是“最小的”，它绝对没有错误检查，可能有无数的安全问题，它不是很灵活-但它应该告诉你一个Python插件系统可以多么简单。

你可能也想看看imp模块，尽管你可以用__import__， os。Listdir和一些字符串操作。

实际上，setuptools工作在一个“插件目录”下，下面的例子摘自项目文档: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#locating-plugins

使用示例:

plugin_dirs = ['foo/plugins'] + sys.path
env = Environment(plugin_dirs)
distributions, errors = working_set.find_plugins(env)
map(working_set.add, distributions)  # add plugins+libs to sys.path
print("Couldn't load plugins due to: %s" % errors)

从长远来看，setuptools是一个更安全的选择，因为它可以加载插件而不会发生冲突或丢失需求。

另一个好处是插件本身可以使用相同的机制进行扩展，而无需原始应用程序关心它。

我很喜欢Andre Roberge博士在Pycon 2009上关于不同插件架构的精彩讨论。他从一些非常简单的东西开始，很好地概述了实现插件的不同方法。

它可以作为一个播客(第二部分是对猴子补丁的解释)，并附有一系列的六篇博客文章。

我建议你在做决定之前先快速听一遍。