Hello, I've got some python code in a library that attempts to load a simple value from a module that will exist for the applications that use this library

from somemodule import simplevalue

Normally, the application that uses the library will have the module file and everything works fine. However, in the unit tests for this library the module does not exist. I know that I can create a temporary file and add that file to my path at runtime, but I was curious if there is a way in python to load something in to memory that would allow the above import to work.

This is more of a curiosity, saying "add the module to your test path" is not helpful :P