I'm working on a system to scan an internal network to get the names associated with every host. Most networks are scannable using NetBios and that will be the primary scan method. However, there could be any number of techniques used to find names for the hosts. Some of these methods are bound to become apparent after the fact.

As a result, I wanted to make the program easily extensible. I was hoping to have some kind of plugin system. Each plugin would define certain standard methods which would be called by the main program. The program would search for the plugins or load the list of plugins from a conf file. It would call the scan() method of each module and then integrate all the results.

It seems to me that some kind of custom import function would be the way to go. Unfortunately, I am no typeglob wizard. What is the right way to do this?

An 8 bit man in a 32 bit world.

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