Is there a way importing a string object?

[Ben Finney]

jfong at ms4.hinet.net writes:

> For example,

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> name = "test"  # test.py is a module's file
> import name

The standard library ‘importlib’ module exports an API for the import
machinery <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html>.

You will likely want to use ‘importlib.import_module’
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.import_module>.

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