[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data (original) (raw)

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Tue Jul 27 23:55:26 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Nope. It doesn't handle packages.

>>> import compiler.ast >>> import imp >>> imp.findmodule('compiler.ast') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named compiler.ast The docs explain how to handle that though.

Sure. But it would be better to have an API that you could just call to find out if a module is present. This could be implemented on top of find_module.

Jim

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