On 01/20/10 19:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > finally getting back to clawing my way thru the python 3 book so > probably a number of newbie questions coming up. first one -- can i > check if a module is importable (equivalently, exists on sys.path, i > assume) without trying to import it first? > > i can see that i can use try/except and just run "import" -- is that > the accepted way to test?
check imp.find_module() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
