for those wondering how "import madeupname" works, basically the incantation is:

    # unless __name__ == "__main__" 
    self = sys.modules[__name__]
    # SelfWrapper has a custom __getattr__
    sys.modules[__name__] = SelfWrapper(self) 

which seems somewhat unpythonesque (aren't import hooks supposed to be used for this?) but it's cool and I hadn't seen it before.