Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 01:45 PM 7/27/04 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:25, Tim Peters wrote:
Sure! Jim wants to distinguish "absenceness" from "brokenness" for some reason.
So, why doesn't imp.find_module() fit the bill?
It doesn't handle packages.
import compiler.ast import imp imp.find_module('compiler.ast') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named compiler.ast
Sure it does; you just have to ask it nicely: :)
Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. IDLE 0.8 -- press F1 for help
import imp imp.find_module('compiler') (None, 'C:\\PYTHON22\\lib\\compiler', ('', '', 5)) import compiler imp.find_module('ast',compiler.__path__) (
, 'C:\\PYTHON22\\lib\\compiler\\ast.py', ('.py', 'r', 1))
Right. That's not exactly the API I had in mind though. You could certainly create a usable API on top of find_module. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org