[issue7411] allow import from file having name containing hyphen or blank

2009-11-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Yes, there is: $ cat file-with-hyphen and space.py x = 5 $ python Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Oct 27 2009, 15:50:27) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. mod = __import__(file-with-hyphen and

[issue7411] allow import from file having name containing hyphen or blank

2009-11-29 Thread Phillip M. Feldman
New submission from Phillip M. Feldman pfeld...@verizon.net: It appears that there is currently no way to import from a file whose name contains a hyphen or blank. This makes it difficult to encode a version number or date in the file name. The solution that I favor would be to allow the name