Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:18:55 -0300, clurker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > >> Michele Simionato wrote: >> >>> On Aug 28, 6:21 am, ssecorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Is there a way to view all the modules I have available for import >>>> from within Python? >>>> Like writing in the interpreter: >>> >>> Try: >>> >>>>>> help() >>> help> modules >>> Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules... >>> <snip> >> >> This looks like it could be a useful tool, but when I try it >> I get the following: >> >> Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules... > [...] >> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line >> 1342, >> in <module> >> >> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line >> 927, >> in main >> >> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'given_files' referenced before >> assignment >>>>> > > Unfortunately the "modules" help command actually imports all the > available packages, and a buggy one may stop the whole process with an > error. > >> Apparently python knows about them both, but I don't know I >> haven't introduced an incompatibility somewhere...and that PIL >> package showing up at the tail of the errors was one of my >> more recent additions... > > If import of a package fails, the error reported is not accurate. In this > case, probably some other package failed, that itself imported PIL. Line > 927 in PIL/__init__.py does not exist. > > A quick fix is to replace line 1854 in pydoc.py (ModuleScanner.run) with > this one: > > for importer, modname, ispkg in > pkgutil.walk_packages(onerror=lambda name:None): > > (the onerror argument makes it to ignore all errors) >
nice Gabriel, thanx! At least now "help(); modules" gives me a beautiful list -- I guess I'll find out what the buggy module is if/when I try to use it...(all PIL/__init__.py is is about 15 lines of comments (referencing a README I can't find)) sc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
