From 5bb7c74147732f938152deec31a70c7f99301572 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Li <hi@raymond.li>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 16:43:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Dynamically import

---
 main.py              | 33 ++++-----------------------------
 projects/__init__.py | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 projects/__init__.py

diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index e6f650c..4f37e26 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -7,34 +7,9 @@ This mirror status checker determines whether CSC mirror is up-to-date with upst
 import time
 import sys
 import requests
-from projects.almalinux import AlmaLinux
-from projects.alpine import Alpine
-from projects.apache import Apache
-from projects.arch import Arch
-from projects.centos import CentOS
-from projects.ceph import Ceph
-from projects.cpan import CPAN
-from projects.cygwin import Cygwin
-from projects.debian import Debian
-from projects.debiancd import DebianCD
-from projects.debianmultimedia import DebianMultimedia
-from projects.debianports import DebianPorts
-from projects.debiansecurity import DebianSecurity
-from projects.eclipse import Eclipse
-from projects.fedora import Fedora
-from projects.freebsd import FreeBSD
-from projects.gentoodistfiles import GentooDistfiles
-from projects.gentooportage import GentooPortage
-from projects.gnome import GNOME
-from projects.gnu import GNU
-from projects.gutenberg import Gutenberg
-from projects.ipfire import IPFire
-from projects.kde import KDE
-from projects.kdeapplicationdata import KDEApplicationData
-from projects.kernel import Kernel
-from projects.openbsd import OpenBSD
-from shared import CSC_MIRROR
-from dateparser.search import search_dates  # this library seems to be super slow but the other library: dateutil.parser gets some errors
+
+from projects import * # noqa
+# from dateparser.search import search_dates  # this library seems to be super slow but the other library: dateutil.parser gets some errors
 # http://theautomatic.net/2018/12/18/2-packages-for-extracting-dates-from-a-string-of-text-in-python/
 import re  # import regular expressions to remove stray numbers in string that might interfere with date finding
 import json  # import json to read project info stored in json file
@@ -111,4 +86,4 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 			except requests.exceptions.RequestException as err:
 				print(f"Error: {project}\n{err}")
 	with open("data.json", "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
-		json.dump(data, file, indent=4)
+		json.dump(data, file, indent='\t')
diff --git a/projects/__init__.py b/projects/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4bcd514
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from inspect import isclass
+from pkgutil import iter_modules
+from pathlib import Path
+from importlib import import_module
+
+# iterate through the modules in the current package
+package_dir = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+for (_, module_name, _) in iter_modules([package_dir]):
+
+    # import the module and iterate through its attributes
+    module = import_module(f"{__name__}.{module_name}")
+    for attribute_name in dir(module):
+        attribute = getattr(module, attribute_name)
+
+        if isclass(attribute):
+            # Add the class to this package's variables
+            globals()[attribute_name] = attribute