Importing module with name given as a variable

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Sat Aug 30 13:18:04 EDT 2008


Sean Davis a écrit :
> What is the "best practice" for importing an arbitrary module given
> that the name is stored in a variable?  The context is a simple web
> application with URL dispatching to a module and function.  I know of
> __import__(), the imp module, and exec.  For each of these, is there a
> way to make them work "just like" the normal import call?

IIRC, this is documented in the __import__ function's doc.




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