How to import module when module name has a '-' dash or hyphen in it?

Question

I want to import foo-bar.py. This works:

foobar = __import__(\"foo-bar\")

This does not:

from \"foo-bar\" import *
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Answer 1

If you can't rename the original file, you could also use a symlink:

ln -s foo-bar.py foo_bar.py

Then you can just:

from foo_bar import *