Turns out that the Twisted framework provides better introspective support than standard python, so problem solved!
http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/8.2.0/api/twisted.python.modules.html#walkModules On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: > I've used the C api to write a method that can call any python module > function. I would like to extend the interface to allow dynamically listing > all python modules, and for a given module all functions, and for a given > function all argument types and the return types if possible. > Starting with the modules, I came up with this bit of code: > > from pkgutil import walk_packages; > > modules=[] > > modules = [modules.append(item[1]) for item in walk_packages()] > > > I then took this to my various systems for testing. It works fine on OSX > and one of my Ubuntu boxes, but two of the Ubuntu boxes fail, each with a > different error message. The failure is due to python importing every > single module and some of the modules failing. One example is the > UniConverter package - towards the end of __init__.py it calls sys.exit(0) > which kills the interpreter completely. > > I've spent a ton of time trying to rewrite walk_packages to be robust to > failure, but so far without luck. Any advice is appreciated. > > /Brian >
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