importing module as filename

[Peter Otten]

david farning wrote:

> I am having a problem with name space contention.
> I am combining two existing programs both with their own config
> modules.
> 
> I have been expermenting with
> import config #grab first config
> sys.path.insert(0,"/usr/share/yum/")
> import config as yconfig #grab second config
> 
> 
> The first config always seems to squash the second config.
> There should be a yconfig.yumconf but there is not.
> 
> any suggestions?

How about a symlink to disambiguate the module names, 
e. g. ln -s config.py yumconfig.py, and then

import config, yumconfig

Somewhat more ambitious: convert the program directory into a package by
adding an __init__.py script and then

import config, yum.config

Peter