from spam import eggs, spam at runtime, how?

[Rene Pijlman]

Aahz:

>In article <br99tv8mgguso67p2a8h8p8sctr2o7olse at 4ax.com>,
>Rene Pijlman  <reply.in.the.newsgroup at my.address.is.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>How do I do:
>>   from spam import eggs
>>... when 'spam' is only known at runtime?
>
>spam = __import__('spam')
>eggs = spam.eggs

Hmm... my spam is a package and eggs is a module. This code gives me:

  AttributeError: 'spam' module has no attribute 'eggs'

But it works like this:

  spam = __import__('spam',globals(),locals(),['eggs'])
  eggs = spam.eggs

Thanks for putting me on track. Skip to.

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René Pijlman