Source code for importlib

"""Backport of importlib.import_module from 3.x."""
# While not critical (and in no way guaranteed!), it would be nice to keep this
# code compatible with Python 2.3.
import sys

def _resolve_name(name, package, level):
    """Return the absolute name of the module to be imported."""
    if not hasattr(package, 'rindex'):
        raise ValueError("'package' not set to a string")
    dot = len(package)
    for x in xrange(level, 1, -1):
        try:
            dot = package.rindex('.', 0, dot)
        except ValueError:
            raise ValueError("attempted relative import beyond top-level "
                              "package")
    return "%s.%s" % (package[:dot], name)


[docs]def import_module(name, package=None): """Import a module. The 'package' argument is required when performing a relative import. It specifies the package to use as the anchor point from which to resolve the relative import to an absolute import. """ if name.startswith('.'): if not package: raise TypeError("relative imports require the 'package' argument") level = 0 for character in name: if character != '.': break level += 1 name = _resolve_name(name[level:], package, level) __import__(name) return sys.modules[name]