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Tue Jul 13 19:57:42 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101897.html

2010/7/13 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:25:23 -0400
> ..
>> Only for top-level modules:
>>
>>>>> __import__("distutils.core", level=0)
>> <module 'distutils' from
>> '/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/distutils/__init__.py'>
>>>>> sys.modules["distutils.core"]
>> <module 'distutils.core' from
>> '/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/distutils/core.py'>
>
> That's right, but I believe the recommended way to achieve that
> behavior is to supply a dummy fromlist:
>
>>>> __import__("distutils.core", fromlist=["dummy"], level=0)
> <module 'distutils.core' from
> '/Users/sasha/Work/python-svn/py3k/Lib/distutils/core.py'>

No! That's not recommended and a complete hack. The "dance" or
importlib.import_module is preferred.

-- 
Regards,
Benjamin

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