Just as many things I love about python, I hate about python. Each time I get to the part where I need to modify the path which the import mechanism uses to lo

Just as many things I love about python, I hate about python. Each time I get to the part where I need to modify the path which the import mechanism uses to look for modules, clean up the loaded modules to make sure I'm not reimporting an already loaded module by the same name, in order to import a module which is in the SAME DIRECTORY as - get this -__file__, I need another coffee. Also "len(...)" is not obvious.