I have set a variable x="hii!!" in another file called ImporterFile.py. I thought pre-defining the variable x and then re-importing it would work, but it didn't.
from ImporterFile import x
def grab(string):
from ImporterFile import (string)
grab(x)
The original problem was that when running the file it would say that "string" wasn't a variable that existed in that file.
If you want to import x and use it in another file, you just need to import it once. There's no need for another import or a "grab" function.
main.py:
from ImporterFile import x
print(x)
ImporterFile.py:
x = "hii!!"
The regular import syntax doesn't support dynamic naming, but importlib does.
import importlib
import_name = "x"
imported_module = importlib.import_module("ImporterFile")
new_x = getattr(imported_module, imported_name)