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importlib: No module named

I have a folder models with a file model.py. I want to import class Model from it and name it NamedModel.
If I do this using

NamedModel = importlib.import_module("models.model.Model")

I have the following error:

No module named models.model.Model

Although, if I use

from models.model import Model

it works. How do I use importlib to import this Model?

P.S. I can't use from models.model import Model because the name of the file and the name of the class are variables.

Solution

  • import_module only... well imports modules. You need to get a class from the module as it's attribute with getattr:

    NamedModel = getattr(importlib.import_module("models.model"), 'Model')