Importing a module, using a variable name?

[Anthony J Wilkinson]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Benjamin Schollnick wrote:

> 	Is it possible to import a module, via a variable?  I've tried it 
[...]
> 		module_to_import = "test"
> 		import module_to_import

Try:

module_to_import = 'sys'
evalstr = 'import ' + module_to_import
exec(evalstr)


you will see the following:

>>> module_to_import = 'sys'
>>> evalstr = 'import ' + module_to_import
>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'evalstr', 'module_to_import']
>>> exec(evalstr)
>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'evalstr', 'module_to_import',
'sys']

Cheers,
Anthony
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