__import__ or when you call a module for name like
>>> import sys
>>> sys
<module 'sys' (built-in)>
the reason I want this is that I want to introspec my module
so I need some way to indentify what elements are inside the module, to execute something like:
""for all the classes defined in this module do <something>"
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