2010/7/13 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com