Can import a user-specified module?

[Erik Max Francis]

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]()

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