Finding a module's sub modules at runtime

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 17:58, Alex Martelli wrote:
> Sure, pydoc (which help calls under the code) does that, with a nice mix
> of inspect, os, and pkgutil.iter_modules calls.  pkgutil.iter_modules
> may in fact be most of what you need:
> 
>>>> help(pkgutil.iter_modules)
> Help on function iter_modules in module pkgutil:
> 
> iter_modules(path=None, prefix='')
>     Yields (module_loader, name, ispkg) for all submodules on path,
>     or, if path is None, all top-level modules on sys.path.
>     
>     'path' should be either None or a list of paths to look for
>     modules in.
>     
>     'prefix' is a string to output on the front of every module name
>     on output.

OK, that looks nice...but what version of Python is that? 
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pkgutil.html only shows one function (and
that's 2.5) and my python 2.4 installation is similarly lacking an
iter_modules() function for the pkgutil module.  Is this a 2.6 thing?

Suppose I could just copy the code from here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2006-April/051452.html and
add it to my module. :)

Thanks for the pointer!

j

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