How to import a Julia module from juliacall?

[nardi]

I was looking at integrating some Julia into an existing Python project, and still trying to decide what the "main" language should be. Both PyCall/PyJulia and this package seem to take Julia as primary, but I like that the reverse direction is quite simple in this package. However, I'm not sure how to do certain things yet, such as import a Julia module from Python. In the docs it says that all functionality is available on the Main object, but without string execution functionality similar to @py, executing an using/import statement is not really possible, right? The method I found is to implement and use such a string execution function as follows:

def jleval(s, jl=juliacall.Main):
    jl.eval(jl.Meta.parse(s))
def jlusing(m, jl=juliacall.Main):
    jleval(f"using {m};", jl)

Is there another better/intended way to accomplish this? And if not, would functionality of this kind be a good addition to the juliacall module? Just to make the available functionality from both sides a bit more symmetric.

[cjdoris]

I gave julia modules an extra method seval which is like eval but for strings. So you can do

juliacall.Main.seval("using Example")

The juliacall documentation definitely needs to be made a bit clearer!

[icweaver]

I was JUST looking for how to do this, thanks!