Can import a user-specified module?

[Peter Hansen]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> Sung Kim wrote:
> 
> > In Python, is something like the following pseudo-code possible? Thank
> > you!
> >
> > moduleName = GetNameFromUser ()
> >
> > import moduleName
> >
> > if moduleName.SomeFunction exists
> >         x = moduleName.SomeFunction ()
> 
> Try the __import__ function:
> 
>         __import__(moduleName)
>         if moduleName.__dict__.has_key(functionName):
>             moduleName[functionName]()

Buglet?  I think moduleName is still a string in the above if statement,
and you can't use the dictionary lookup in the function call line
on either the string or a real module.
This might be better:

  mymod = __import__(moduleName)
  if hasattr(mymod, functionName):
      getattr(mymod, functionName)()

Note that there is no guarantee in these snippets that 
functionName really refers to a _callable_ item unless
you use callable() in a test as well.

-Peter