Carl: Your solution is kind of what I was leaning towards after a bit of thinking. Since I have to have the modules each have their own detect() method, then it wouldn't be too hard to have their own test() method to put them through their paces.
Catrironpi: I will look into this as it might help just get around the problem, but in my eyes it's still not 'clean'. Simply because people (including me) would expect the regular 'import' statement over the method I would think. Thanks to all who responded. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
