A: importing dynamic files, reloading .so

[Jan Kybic]

>   I was just wondering if there is a way to import a module where the module
> name is dynamic (basically contained in a string).  The idea is that the

You can use exec() to execute arbitrary strings. For example:

demomodules=['MosSplnreg', 'MosLandmarks2D' ]
for i in demomodules: exec('import '+i)

>   The second part is removing these imports.  Is there a way to 'unimport' a
> module?  The python website seems to be very lacking on such topics.

As far as I know, 'del' works. For example:

import sys
del sys

If you just want to reload a new version, use reload(), such as reload(sys)

Jan

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