Need to import stuff

Jerry Hill malaclypse2 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 18:27:39 EDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM, abhijeet thatte
<abhijeet.thatte at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to import few files depending on the user input. For eg if user gives
> an input as "abcd" then I will have  import "abcd.py".
> Can not have any hard coding in the code. Does any one know how to solve the
> problem.

Use the __import__ function (
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#__import__ ), like this:

user_module = __import__("abdc")
user_module.do_stuff()

-- 
Jerry



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