Dynamic package exploration

Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Fri Jul 21 19:28:29 EDT 2000


Sebastien Pierre wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
>  But if I do :
>   >>eval ( "import os" )
>  It doesn't work...so it prevents me from doing something
> dynamic...Ouch!

You *very seldom* need eval/exec in Python. Maybe this will help:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html

Look at __import__

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