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.
>
> Shankar
>
The __import__() builtin function takes a module name and returns the
imported module as a value.
>>> m = __import__("bsddb")
>>> m
<module 'bsddb' from '/usr/lib/python2.4/bsddb/__init__.pyc'>
>>> dir(m)
['UserDict', '_DBWithCursor', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__',
'__name__', '__path__', '__version__', '_bsddb', '_checkflag', '_db',
'_iter_mixin', '_openDBEnv', 'btopen', 'db', 'error', 'hashopen', 'os',
'ref', 'rnopen', 'sys']
>>>
regards
Steve
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