[Python-Dev] python3k : imp.find_module raises SyntaxError

[Sylvain Thénault]

On 29 novembre 14:21, Ron Adam wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 01:22 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> >Considering these semantics changed between Python 2 and 3 w/o a
> >discernable benefit (I would consider it a negative as finding a
> >module should not be impacted by syntactic correctness; the full act
> >of importing should be the only thing that cares about that), I would
> >consider it a bug that should be filed.
> 
> The output of imp.find_module() returns an open file io object, and
> it's output feeds directly into to imp.load_module().
> 
> >>> imp.find_module('pydoc')
> (<_io.TextIOWrapper name=4 encoding='utf-8'>,
> '/usr/local/lib/python3.2/pydoc.py', ('.py', 'U', 1))
> 
> So I think the imp.find_module() is suppose to be used when you *do*
> want to do the full act of importing and not for just finding out if
> or where module xyz exists.

in python 2, find_module was usable for such usage, and this is a needed api
for a tool like pylint. Is there another way to do so with python 3?
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