How to import a module based on an argument

Mark McEahern marklists at mceahern.com
Thu Mar 25 15:53:06 EST 2004


Sean Berry wrote:

>I don't know that this partilarily bad programming, 
>but I was interested in doing the following.
>
>def functionname( module, var1, var2 ):
>	import module
>
>I would like to be able to pass the module name
>as an argument and have the module imported as a result.
>
>For instance... functionname( os, "1", 234)
>
>Thanks for any help.
>  
>
Checkout __import__.

// m




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