Importing different versions of a module

[Fredrik Lundh]

mercado mercado wrote:

> It seems that you can specify the name of the module to be imported at 
> runtime using the following syntax:
> 
> X = __import__('X')
> 
> (from http://effbot.org/zone/import-confusion.htm)
> 
> Of course, I would rather specify the path to the module at runtime, not 
> the module name itself, but at least this is a start...

additional approaches can be found here:

     http://effbot.org/zone/import-string.htm

also see my other reply to you in this thread.

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