[GitHub] [airflow] mik-laj commented on pull request #9078: Don't create empty modules for plugins

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mik-laj commented on pull request #9078:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/9078#issuecomment-636381764


   We create modules that do not contain any content. They are only added to sys.modules, but they cannot be used in any way. I care about it because it makes it difficult to understand the status of the plugins when you execute the [`airflow plugins` command](https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/9001)
   
   Now when you run the following command 
   ```
   AIRFLOW__CORE__PLUGINS_FOLDER=$PWD/airflow/contrib/plugins/ airflow plugins
   ```
   you will see the output below.
   ```
   operators_modules = []
   sensors_modules = []
   hooks_modules = []
   macros_modules = []
   executors_modules = []
   ```
   Before
   ```
   operators_modules = [<module 'airflow.operators.metastore_browser'>]
   sensors_modules = [<module 'airflow.sensors.metastore_browser'>]
   hooks_modules = [<module 'airflow.hooks.metastore_browser'>]
   macros_modules = [<module 'airflow.macros.metastore_browser'>]
   executors_modules = [<module 'airflow.executors.metastore_browser'>]
   ```
   So thanks to this change you will be able to check which plugins affect which area of the application.


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