On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Lie Ryan wrote: > On 01/20/10 19:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > finally getting back to clawing my way thru the python 3 book so > > probably a number of newbie questions coming up. first one -- can i > > check if a module is importable (equivalently, exists on sys.path, i > > assume) without trying to import it first? > > > > i can see that i can use try/except and just run "import" -- is that > > the accepted way to test? > > check imp.find_module()
thanks, that's what i was looking for. i'm sure i'll run across that shortly as i keep working my way thru this python 3 book. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list