importing modules with the same name but from different directories

[Aahz]

In article <T8Qra.32135$WQ4.29932 at news2.central.cox.net>,
Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
>What you definitely *can't* do is this:
>
>    m = "modulename_or_path"
>    import m as something
>
>To emulate this non-available solution and actually execute an import you
>would need to use this:
>
>    m = "modulename_or_path"
>    exec "import %s as something" % m
>
>I'd advise against any solution that involves exec'ing or eval'ing unless
>there's really no alternative, which is not the case here. What you would
>need for this is the __import__() function, built in to the language and
>just waiting for you to take advantage of it.

Use the ``imp`` module.
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