On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:22:18 +0800, Leo Jay wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> I'm looking for a programmatic way to get a list of all Python modules >> and packages. Not just those already imported, but all those which >> *could* be imported. >> >> > If you don't actually import it, how can you know it could be imported? > Not all .so files are valid python modules. Not all .py files could be > imported by all python interpreters.
You're right, of course, but I'm not concerned by whether or not the module is error-free and can be imported successfully. I'm working on tab completion for module names. I have some alpha-quality code working, so if I hit TAB after typing "import ma" I get this: py> import ma macpath macurl2path mailbox mailcap mangle markupbase math For what it's worth, importing "mangle" fails with a SyntaxError. But that's okay, I don't expect tab completion to only show *valid* modules :-) Over the next few days I'll make an official announcement, but if anyone wants a sneak-peek, check out: http://code.google.com/p/tabhistory/source/browse/tabhistory.py where I have indenting, code completion, filename completion, and module completion all working to some degree or another. Thanks to everyone for their help. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
