On Jan 17, 3:34 pm, Eduardo Lenz <l...@joinville.udesc.br> wrote: > modu = "os" > exec("from " + modu + " import *")
And of course, there's the usual disclaimer that this should be only used in circumstances where you can guarantee the contents of 'modu' aren't ever going to be anything like: modu = "os import system; system('rm *'); from os " Another reason to prefer __import__ over exec is speed: $ /usr/lib/python2.5/timeit.py -n 100000 'from os import system' 100000 loops, best of 3: 2.12 usec per loop $ /usr/lib/python2.5/timeit.py -n 100000 '__import__("os", fromlist= ["system"])' 100000 loops, best of 3: 2.72 usec per loop $ /usr/lib/python2.5/timeit.py -n 100000 'm = "os"; exec("from " + m + " import system")' 100000 loops, best of 3: 25.1 usec per loop -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list