It seems that you can specify the name of the module to be imported at runtime using the following syntax:
X = __import__('X')
(from http://effbot.org/zone/import-confusion.htm)
Of course, I would rather specify the path to the module at runtime, not the
module name itself, but at least this is a start...
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