Getting a list of all modules
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Jul 31 07:55:38 EDT 2014
In article <53da1d5a$0$29974$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> I'm working on tab completion for module names. I have some alpha-quality
> code working, so if I hit TAB after typing "import ma" I get this:
>
>
> py> import ma
> macpath macurl2path mailbox mailcap mangle
> markupbase math
That's kind of neat. What do you do if the same name appears multiple
places in your path? It would be useful to call this out. More than
once, I've done "import x" and gotten a different x than I expected.
Those kinds of problems can be tricky to debug.
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