On 19 May 2015 at 17:18, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> You will be pleased to know of the standard library ‘importlib’ > library:: > > >>> import importlib > Yes, I already got importlib to accept a string. But I can't figure how to get dir to accept it: >>> x = 'shutil' >>> import importlib >>> importlib.__import__(x) <module 'shutil' from 'C:\\Python34\\lib\\shutil.py'> >>> If I can get dir to accept x I can parse the output to get rid of the __xxx stuff and print it out. -- Jim After not doing dishes for a week and washing spoon after spoon, fork after fork, knife after knife - I suddenly understand the mathematical concept of infinity, which is just one more damn thing after another. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor