Implementing CPython import as a function

badidea.py

## This is the implementation of the terrible hack

from sys import _getframe
from importlib import import_module
def import_(name, as_=None, globals_=None):
    as_ = as_ or name.partition('.')[0]
    globals_ = globals_ or _getframe(1).f_globals
    globals_[as_] = import_module(name)

## This is what usage looks like:

import_('json')
print json.dumps(["don't", "do", "this!"])