To dynamically import Python modules, you can use the importlib package's import_module(moduleName) function. You need to have moduleName as a string. For example,
>>> from importlib import import_module >>> moduleName = "os" >>> globals()[moduleName] = import_module(moduleName)
If you want to dynamically import a list of modules, you can even call this from a for loop. For example,
>>> import importlib >>> modnames = ["os", "sys", "math"] >>> for lib in modnames: ... globals()[lib] = importlib.import_module(lib)
The globals() call returns a dict. We can set the lib key for each library as the object returned to us on import of a module.