Today I stumbled about an unknown and undocumented (?) feature. At least
it's not documented in our docs. __import__ can import a module by file
name:
>>> open("/tmp/example.py", "w").write("test = 23\n")
>>> mod = __import__("/tmp/example")
>>> mod
<module '/tmp/example' from '/tmp/example.py'>
>>> mod.__name__
'/tmp/example'
>>> mod.__file__
'/tmp/example.py'
>>> mod.test
23
Is it just a coincidence? Is it a desired feature? Why isn't it documented?
Christian
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