Possible to import a module whose name is contained in a variable?

[Gerrit Holl]

Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2005, at 5:23 AM, Michael Hoffman wrote:
> >Avoiding exec (which is a statement, not a function) is much more
> >important. Since it executes arbitrary code, you can get unpredictable
> >results from it.
> 
> 	Is there any way to use __import__ to replace the following:
> 
> exec("from %s import *" % modulename)

No.

Gerrit.

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