import help

[Rob Wolfe]

placid wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do i import a module that has an hypen/dash (-) in its name ? I get
> a SytaxError exception

You can use function __import__.

>>> print open("-test.py").read()
def fun2():
    return "Hello from -test !"
>>> import -test
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    import -test
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> __import__("-test", globals(), locals(), [])
<module '-test' from '-test.pyc'>

But here is another problem:

>>> -test.fun2()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'test' is not defined
>>> import sys
>>> sys.modules["-test"].fun2()
'Hello from -test !'

Regards,
Rob