from spam import eggs, spam at runtime, how?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Rene Pijlman wrote:

> Hmm... my spam is a package and eggs is a module. This code gives me:
>
>   AttributeError: 'spam' module has no attribute 'eggs'
>
> But it works like this:
>
>   spam = __import__('spam',globals(),locals(),['eggs'])
>   eggs = spam.eggs

or:

    spam = __import__('spam.eggs')
    eggs = spam.eggs

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