how to check if a module is importable?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Lie Ryan wrote:

> On 01/20/10 19:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   finally getting back to clawing my way thru the python 3 book so
> > probably a number of newbie questions coming up.  first one -- can i
> > check if a module is importable (equivalently, exists on sys.path, i
> > assume) without trying to import it first?
> >
> >   i can see that i can use try/except and just run "import" -- is that
> > the accepted way to test?
>
> check imp.find_module()

  thanks, that's what i was looking for.  i'm sure i'll run across
that shortly as i keep working my way thru this python 3 book.

rday
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