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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:19:55 +0200
Subject: Re: running multiple scripts -- which way is more elegant?
From: Florencio Cano <florencio.cano@gmail.com>
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> Unfortunately I have not been able to
> work out how to get the imports to work.
>
> import config_script obviously doesn't work and __import__(config_script)
> works from the python interpreter but fails in the script (ImportError:
> Import by filename is not supported.)

You can use this:

exec("import " + module_name)