Can Python directory names be keywords? E.g. 'import'?

Am I allowed to have a director开发者_Python百科y named 'import' containing Python code? Or will the import command fail to parse it as a result? Is there any way around that?

You can use the built-in __import__ function which accepts any string. Thus you may write:

__import__('keyword.submodule')

You can have a directory with a name that is a Python keyword storing your Python code. This directory should not be used as a package, since package names should be valid Python identifiers.

Or will the import command fail to parse it as a result?

It will indeed fail.