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Import class from module dynamically

It is expecting my_module to be a package containing a module named ‘my_class’. If you need to import a class, or an attribute in general, dynamically, just use getattr after you import the module: cls = getattr(import_module(‘my_module’), ‘my_class’) Also, yes, it does only work with modules. Remember importlib.import_module is a wrapper of the internal importlib.__import__ … Read more

How to import a module in Python with importlib.import_module

For relative imports you have to: a) use relative name b) provide anchor explicitly importlib.import_module(‘.c’, ‘a.b’) Of course, you could also just do absolute import instead: importlib.import_module(‘a.b.c’)