On 16.06.2005, at 20:59, Shankar Iyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose I have a string, sModuleName, that contains the name of a > module. I now want to see what functions are in that module, but if I > call dir(sModuleName), I instead get the list of operations that can > be done on a string. Is there any way to convert the string into a > format that I could feed to dir to cause the desired effect? I think > I could modify the string a bit and then use the exec command, but I > was advised against that on this board last week.
you have to import the module: name = "sys" mod = __import__(name) dir(mod) - harold - -- Bitte verlassen Sie diese Welt so, wie Sie sie vorfinden möchten. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list