Franck Pommereau

One of the important features of SNAKES is its capability to extend the basic model with plugins. In this post, we see how to load plugins.
Loading a plugin essentially requires a call to snakes.plugins.load. For instance, let's load plugin gv that allows to draw Petri nets (using GraphViz):

This call to load can be understood as: load plugin gv, on the top of module snakes.nets, and build a module mynets as a result. Indeed, loading a plugin results in creating a new module that is immediately imported. (This allows one to use simultaneously several modules extended in different ways.) So, after, this two lines, the following is possible:
In order to load more than one plugin, the first argument to load can be replaced by a list of modules to be loaded. For instance: