James Stroud <jstroud@mbi.ucla.edu> writes:
> FunctionUser.do_something_with(globals(), 'doit', 7)

How about instead of "import FunctionUser", require

from FunctionUser import do_something

In FunctionUser.py, write:

frob = (some object that gets necessary stuff from module environment)

def do_something(*user_args, __frob = frob):
# use __frob to access FunctionUser module contents as needed
# ...
(func, args) = getattr(FunctionUser, user_args[0]), user_args[1:]
func(*args)