Question

Given a string with a module name, how do you import everything in the module as if you had called:

from module import * 

i.e. given string S=’module’, how does one get the equivalent of the following:

__import__(S, fromlist='*') 

This doesn’t seem to perform as expected (as it doesn’t import anything).

Answer 1

Please reconsider. The only thing worse than import * is magic import *.

If you really want to:

m = __import__ (S) try:     attrlist = m.__all__ except AttributeError:     attrlist = dir (m) for attr in attrlist:     globals()[attr] = getattr (m, attr)