[New-bugs-announce] [issue11718] Teach IDLE's open-modue command to find packages

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>:

The open-module command is a fast effective way to examine source code regardless of where it sits on sys.path; however, it gets lost when seeking a package name.  Instead of aborting, it could bring-up the __init__.py file.

For example, "open-module unittest" or "open-module collections" which both used to work before they became packages could open Lib/unittest/__init__.py and Lib/collections/__init__.py.

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components: IDLE
keywords: easy
messages: 132560
nosy: rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Teach IDLE's open-modue command to find packages
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.3

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