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Gary Herron
gherron at islandtraining.com
Tue Aug 8 02:32:01 EDT 2006
placid wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do i import a module that has an hypen/dash (-) in its name ? I get
> a SytaxError exception
>
> Cheers
>
>
You can't do that directly. However, the internals of the import
mechanism are available to the programmer through a module named imp. It
allows you to import a file whose name is specified in a string -- that
should work for you.
Gary Herron
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