module not callable - why not?

[Aahz]

In article <8ef9bea6.0404180956.cd1a152 at posting.google.com>,
Hung Jung Lu <hungjunglu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>One more, I promise I'll stop.
>
>(i) For getting attributes by string names, for attributes of
>instances you do getattr(self, 'name'), for module attributes you do
>globals()['name']. I mention this because every once a month or so a
>newbie would ask how to get module level attributes by name.

That's not the only answer, and it's not the one I use:

    import foo
    getattr(foo, 'name')
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