import from user input?

[Christian Tismer]

Gaetan Corneau wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
> > >>> globals()[modname] = __import__(modname)
> [GC]
> Exactly what I was looking for. I read about the __import__ function in the
> doc, but I didn't know that I had to assign it that way.

Actually, I did no good job by suggesting that. It will work
for simple module names. But if you try with things like
"win32com.client", it will break. The import will work,
but the module will not be accessible in the way a user would
expect.

Instead, one should cut off the first name before the first dot
and put that into globals().

import string
globals()[string.split(modname, ".")[0]] = __import__(modname)

seems to do it better.

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