Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Thursday 29 March 2007 17:58, Alex Martelli wrote: >> Sure, pydoc (which help calls under the code) does that, with a nice mix >> of inspect, os, and pkgutil.iter_modules calls. pkgutil.iter_modules >> may in fact be most of what you need: >> >>>>> help(pkgutil.iter_modules) >> Help on function iter_modules in module pkgutil: >> >> iter_modules(path=None, prefix='') >> Yields (module_loader, name, ispkg) for all submodules on path, >> or, if path is None, all top-level modules on sys.path. >> >> 'path' should be either None or a list of paths to look for >> modules in. >> >> 'prefix' is a string to output on the front of every module name >> on output. > > OK, that looks nice...but what version of Python is that? > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pkgutil.html only shows one function (and > that's 2.5) and my python 2.4 installation is similarly lacking an > iter_modules() function for the pkgutil module. Is this a 2.6 thing?
No, 2.5. The documentation is not up to date. Read the source. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
