load module without import when class is needed

Question

I am using python 3.3

I have a folder model with several modules, each with one class defined in it. The class has the same name as the module.

Now I want it so that when in the main script I do foo=Foo() that automatically the class module model.Foo is loaded with the effect of from model.Foo import Foo

How?

Answer 1

It is usually not a good idea to have automatic import. How would the python interpreter know that Foo is model.Foo ?

One way to "ease" importing classes is to load them in the module __init__.py

Ex: https://github.com/masom/shopify-trois/blob/master/shopify_trois/models

Someone else asked a similar question: Python Auto Importing

Answer 2

While agreeing with Martin's warning about doing so, if you really want to dynamically import code, have a look at the imp module.