On Thursday 16 June 2005 02:19 pm, harold fellermann wrote:
> On 16.06.2005, at 20:59, Shankar Iyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 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)
Note that if the module is already imported, this costs you almost
nothing --- __import__() will just return the already-loaded module.
That is to say:
import sys
dir(__import__('sys'))
is not going to take (noticeably) longer than:
mod = __import__('sys')
dir(mod)
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