how to import from variable source

Steve Purcell stephen_purcell at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 15 04:11:55 EDT 2001


Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> module = 'mymod'
> import module
> 
> Only, as I found out I get an error stating that there is not module
> called module.
> 
> Is this possible in python?  Is there a better way perhapse?

Use the __import__() builtin function:

	module = __import__('mymod')

-Steve

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