"dynamical" importing

[John Abel]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

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>>def _importModule( moduleName ):
>>    modName = __import__ ( moduleName )
>>    modComponents = moduleName.split( '.' )
>>    for indivComp in modComponents[ 1: ]:
>>        modName = getattr( modName, indivComp )
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>>   return modName
>>    
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>__import__ takes a module name, not an arbitrary file name.
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Didn't mean to imply that it did.  By pathToModule, I meant spam.ham as 
in 
http://localhost/documentation/Python-Docs-2.4.1/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-6 
( hopefully, that should explain things to the OP ).

J