How to change a Python module name?

Question

Is it only possible if I rename the file? Or is there a __module__ variable to the file to define what\'s its name?

Answer 1

I had an issue like this with bsddb. I was forced to install the bsddb3 module but hundreds of scripts imported bsddb. Instead of changing the import in all of them, I extracted the bsddb3 egg, and created a soft link in the site-packages directory so that both "bsddb" and "bsddb3" were one in the same to python.