First of all, just let me say that I'm aware of the "-v" switch for Python, and I don't want anything nearly that verbose.
I often long for the following behavior from Python when I'm running interactively: When a new module is imported, I'd like the path to the file providing the module to be printed out to the screen. If the module is already in sys.modules, then don't worry about printing anything. The best thing that I can think of to do is something like: <python> __builtins__.__real_import__ = __builtins__.__import__ def noisy_import(name, globals = globals(), locals = locals(), fromlist = []): printit = name not in sys.modules mod = __real_import__(name, globals, locals, fromlist) if printit: try: print '## Loading %s (%s)' % (mod.__name__, mod.__file__) except AttributeError: print '## Loading %s (built-in)' % mod.__name__ return mod __builtins__.__import__ = noisy_import </python> Which seems to work okay for basic kinds of modules, but doesn't quite work right for modules that belong to a particular class. Any suggestions on what I might be missing here? I would imagine that this is a cookbook type thing, and if there are any references on how to do this, I'd greatly appreciate it (I couldn't come up with the right Google magic words). Thanks in advance for any help. -- Steve Juranich Tucson, AZ USA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list