[Python-Dev] Re: Proposed Python api for testing whether a module exists

[Paul Moore]

Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> writes:

> I propose to add the following function to the imp module:
>
>    exists(module_name)
[...]
> If there are no objections, I'll try to get this in before Wednesday night.

Does this work in the presence of PEP 302 style import hooks?
Specifically, the case where there's a zipfile on sys.path.

Paul.
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