importing a module when the module name is in a variable [duplicate]

Answer 1

importlib is probably the way to go. The documentation on it is here. It's generally preferred over __import__ for most uses.

In your case, you would use:

import importlib
module = importlib.import_module(module_name, package=None)

Answer 2

You want the built in __import__ function

new_module = __import__(modulename)