[Tutor] Unable to take input as a module

[Karl Pflästerer]

On 22 Feb 2006, rakesh.mishra at gmail.com wrote:

> my code:
> ..........
> .
> import sys, types, string, inspect
>
> input= sys.argv[1]
> print  inspect.ismodule(input)
> ................
>
> here it always give false.  as what ever  input i take it is string .
>
> my problem is i am not able to take input as a module
> help me out !


Go the other way. Every module has an atribute called `__name__'. And
this is a string. So compare the user input with e.g `sys.__name__'
(which is 'sys').


   Karl
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