要从给定文件名导入模块，可以临时扩展路径，并在finally块引用中恢复系统路径：

filename = "directory/module.py"

directory, module_name = os.path.split(filename)
module_name = os.path.splitext(module_name)[0]

path = list(sys.path)
sys.path.insert(0, directory)
try:
    module = __import__(module_name)
finally:
    sys.path[:] = path # restore

我认为，最好的方法是从官方文件（29.1。imp-访问导入内部构件）：

import imp
import sys

def __import__(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=None):
    # Fast path: see if the module has already been imported.
    try:
        return sys.modules[name]
    except KeyError:
        pass

    # If any of the following calls raises an exception,
    # there's a problem we can't handle -- let the caller handle it.

    fp, pathname, description = imp.find_module(name)

    try:
        return imp.load_module(name, fp, pathname, description)
    finally:
        # Since we may exit via an exception, close fp explicitly.
        if fp:
            fp.close()

可以使用__import__和chdir执行此操作：

def import_file(full_path_to_module):
    try:
        import os
        module_dir, module_file = os.path.split(full_path_to_module)
        module_name, module_ext = os.path.splitext(module_file)
        save_cwd = os.getcwd()
        os.chdir(module_dir)
        module_obj = __import__(module_name)
        module_obj.__file__ = full_path_to_module
        globals()[module_name] = module_obj
        os.chdir(save_cwd)
    except Exception as e:
        raise ImportError(e)
    return module_obj


import_file('/home/somebody/somemodule.py')

向sys.path添加路径（与使用imp相比）的优点是，当从单个包导入多个模块时，可以简化操作。例如：

import sys
# the mock-0.3.1 dir contains testcase.py, testutils.py & mock.py
sys.path.append('/foo/bar/mock-0.3.1')

from testcase import TestCase
from testutils import RunTests
from mock import Mock, sentinel, patch

特殊的是使用Exec（）导入具有绝对路径的模块：（exec采用代码字符串或代码对象。而eval采用表达式。）

PYMODULE = 'C:\maXbox\mX47464\maxbox4\examples\histogram15.py';
Execstring(LoadStringJ(PYMODULE));

然后使用eval（）获取值或对象：

println('get module data: '+evalStr('pyplot.hist(x)'));

使用exec加载模块就像使用通配符命名空间导入：

Execstring('sys.path.append(r'+'"'+PYMODULEPATH+'")');
Execstring('from histogram import *'); 

要从给定文件名导入模块，可以临时扩展路径，并在finally块引用中恢复系统路径：

filename = "directory/module.py"

directory, module_name = os.path.split(filename)
module_name = os.path.splitext(module_name)[0]

path = list(sys.path)
sys.path.insert(0, directory)
try:
    module = __import__(module_name)
finally:
    sys.path[:] = path # restore