Dynamically import module into a python function

Question

I have this project structure

utilities.py 
/references
    module1.py
    module2.py
    ...

Into the utilities.py file, I would like to have a function with dynamically import with parameters like that :

def import(self, file):    
    from references.file import file  
    ...

Into the utilities.py file I use

import("module1")

But it doesn't work, I have the following error

from references.file import steps ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'references.file'

I need some help, thank you

PyPingu · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-20 14:33:41Z

1

If you want to import using string names then try the importlib.import_module() function.

You could have a function that worked something like:

def dynamic_import(file):
    importlib.import_module(f'references.{file}')

For even more control you could use the __import__() builtin, but that's more involved and not really recommended

answered Dec 20, 2019 at 14:33

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