Hans Dushanthakumar wrote:
>Thanks for your reply Kent.
>
>Is it possible to dynamically import a module?
>
>The foll snippet of code throws an error "ImportError: No module named
>testname"
>
>
>t = ["test1.py", "test2.py"] #Actually this list is filled in by a
>Tkinter Listbox selection.
>
>for f in t:
> testname = f[:-3]
> import "%s"%(testname)
> print testname.run_test()
>
>
>Any other means of importing dynamically?
>
>
Well, it's not recommended, but the following will work (I'll leave the
lectures on why it's not recommended to the more learned on the list ;-) ):
eval("import %s" % testname)
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