[Pythonmac-SIG] Where is the sys module?
Paul Berkowitz
berkowit@silcom.com
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:11:12 -0700
On 4/13/03 3:37 PM, "Skip Montanaro" <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Paul> The O'Reilly "Learning Python" tells me I should be able to get
> Paul> the sys module, and all its attributes, by typing
>
> Paul> dir(sys)
>
> Paul> in the interactive Python interpreter. It doesn't work (default OS
> Paul> 10.2 installation of Python 2.2):
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> I think perhaps you're misreading something. "sys" is a module, so to use
> it you have to import it into the current namespace. Try this instead:
>
>>>> import sys
>>>> dir(sys)
Yes, that was it. I was misled by the fact that the first dir searches I
tried were on built-ins.
Thanks.
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Paul Berkowitz