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Tue Jul 27 19:45:07 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/046440.html

Thomas Heller wrote:
> Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> writes:
> 

...

>>Hm, perhaps it would be better to provide an API (if there isn't one
>>already) to test whether a module is present.
> 
> 
> Doesn't imp.find_module do this? On Windows:

Nope. It doesn't handle packages.

 >>> import compiler.ast
 >>> import imp
 >>> imp.find_module('compiler.ast')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named compiler.ast

Jim

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