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I have a custom module in one of the directories in my PYTHONPATH with the same name as one of the standard library modules, so that when I import module_name, that module gets loaded. If I want to use the original standard library module, is there any way to force Python to import from the standard library rather than from the PYTHONPATH directory, short of renaming the custom module and changing every reference to point to the new name?
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Create a folder called startup if it's not already there. Add a new Python file called start.py. Put your favorite imports in this file. Launch IPython or a Jupyter Notebook and your favorite libraries will be automatically loaded every time!
append() Function. This is the easiest way to import a Python module by adding the module path to the path variable. The path variable contains the directories Python interpreter looks in for finding modules that were imported in the source files.
Importing Modules To make use of the functions in a module, you'll need to import the module with an import statement. An import statement is made up of the import keyword along with the name of the module. In a Python file, this will be declared at the top of the code, under any shebang lines or general comments.
So there's four different ways to import: Import the whole module using its original name: pycon import random. Import specific things from the module: pycon from random import choice, randint. Import the whole module and rename it, usually using a shorter variable name: pycon import pandas as pd.
The ideal solution would be to rename your module to something not in the standard library.
You can also switch absolute imports on if you're on Python 2.5+:
from __future__ import absolute_import
Don't.
If you have accidentally chosen a standard library module name, change your module name to end the conflict.
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You can select the module you want to import with the imp module:
import imp
mymodule = imp.load_module(name, file, pathname, description)
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