Importing a module, using a variable name?

[Benjamin Schollnick]

Folks,

	Is it possible to import a module, via a variable?  I've tried it 
myself,
	and it doesn't seem possible.  Is there another "less obvious" method
	that would allow me to do roughly the same thing?

	Here's the example I tried:

		module_to_import = "test"
		import module_to_import

	I seem to remember a sys function to execute a python file, but
	would that allow me to access the functions, etc, in the file?

			- Benjamin


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