importing a module from a file without the '.py' suffix

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 08:26:20 EDT 2021


On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:36 PM Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at vub.be> wrote:
>
> I have a file with python code but the name doesn't end with the '.py'
> suffix.
>
> What is the easiest way to import this code as a module without changing
> its name?
>

It should be possible to use importlib for this:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importing-a-source-file-directly

ChrisA


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