How to import module when module name has a '-' dash or hyphen in it?
Starting from Python 3.1, you can use importlib :
import importlib foobar = importlib.import_module("foo-bar")
you can't. foo-bar is not an identifier. rename the file to foo_bar.py
Edit: If import is not your goal (as in: you don't care what happens with sys.modules, you don't need it to import itself), just getting all of the file's globals into your own scope, you can use execfile
# contents of foo-bar.pybaz = 'quux'>>> execfile('foo-bar.py')>>> baz'quux'>>>