in my opinion, "without importing it" makes it unnecessarily complicated.
You just want to know it module xyz exists, or better said can be found
(sys.path).
why not try - except[ - else ]
try:
import mymodule
except ImportError:
# NOW YOU KNOW it does not exist
#+ and you may react properly
??
* Gelonida N <[email protected]> [2012-08-06 22:49]:
> Is this possible.
>
> let's say I'd like to know whether I could import the module
> 'mypackage.mymodule', meaning,
> whther this module is located somewhere in sys.path
>
> i tried to use
>
> imp.find_module(), but
> it didn't find any module name containing a '.'
>
> Am I doing anything wrong?
>
> Is there another existing implementation, that helps.
>
> I could do this manually, but this is something I'd just like to do
> if necessary.
>
>
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