Accessing global namespace

[Tonguç Yumruk]

I'm trying to build a completely plug-in based system. One of my
problems is importing a package dynamically. I'm trying to emulate the
import command. The __import__() function or imp module doesn't help me
much because they only return the module. I want to register the module
with it's name in the current namespace. I can do it by:

	globals()[module_name] = __import__(module_name)

But I don't think it's a good thing to access the global namespace
directly. I prefer using setattr() but I cannot access the current
namespace as an object I want something like

	setattr(__main__,__import__(module_name))

Is that possible? I'm using Python 2.1 on Debian Woody

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