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Given a module's name, how do I get the file path without importing it? Searched all over, can't find any such info.

Is it possible to ask if a named module exists before attempting an import?

Or are we forced to import first and catch any failure?

-- Gnarlie

In article
<32472953.855.1324656114851.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prix23>,
Gnarlodious <> wrote:

> Given a module's name, how do I get the file path without importing it?
> Searched all over, can't find any such info.
>
> Is it possible to ask if a named module exists before attempting an import?
>
> Or are we forced to import first and catch any failure?
>
> -- Gnarlie

import imp
imp.find_module()

Why do you want to do this?

Roy Smith wrote:

> import imp
> imp.find_module()

Oh yeah that works. I am getting a list of modtimes using List Comprehension, from a list of modules, which will be compared to an older list to see if mod_wsgi needs to be restarted.

Maybe thee is an easy way to get the modtimes, I'd be grateful.

-- Gnarlie

In article
<4946660.379.1324659073535.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prez5>,
Gnarlodious <> wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
>
> > import imp
> > imp.find_module()
>
> Oh yeah that works. I am getting a list of modtimes using List Comprehension,
> from a list of modules, which will be compared to an older list to see if
> mod_wsgi needs to be restarted.

Ah, I see. Django's runserver does this. You might want to look to see
how they implement it (https://www.djangoproject.com/download/).

I am rolling my own, and learning Python at the same time.

One more question. Say I want to assemble a list of tuples like this:

modules = ['wsgiref', 'http']
import imp
[(imp.find_module(module)[1], os.path.getmtime(imp.find_module(module)[1])) for module in modules]

Can I in some way assign imp.find_module(module)[1] to a variable and reuse it? Is this a job for lambda?

Thanks anyone.

-- Gnarlie

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Gnarlodious <> wrote:
> [(imp.find_module(module)[1], os.path.getmtime(imp.find_module(module)[1])) for module in modules]
>
> Can I in some way assign imp.find_module(module)[1] to a variable and reuse it? Is this a job for lambda?

Well, you can use an additional comprehension to provide a temporary
variable, if you really want to do it all as a single expression.

[(m, os.path.getmtime(m)) for m in (imp.find_module(module)[1] for
module in modules)]

ChrisA

In article
<4652751.858.1324669248908.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prj1>,
Gnarlodious <> wrote:

> I am rolling my own, and learning Python at the same time.

Hmmm. The imp module is kind of deep magic for a first introduction to
the language. But, whatever.

> One more question. Say I want to assemble a list of tuples like this:
>
> modules = ['wsgiref', 'http']
> import imp
> [(imp.find_module(module)[1], os.path.getmtime(imp.find_module(module)[1]))
> for module in modules]
>
> Can I in some way assign imp.find_module(module)[1] to a variable and reuse
> it? Is this a job for lambda?

I think what you want to do is rewrite the list comprehension as a
regular loop.

my_list = []
for module in modules:
m = imp.find_module(module)[1]
my_list.append(m, os.path.getmtime(m))

I'm guessing you meant for this to be on-list, and am hoping you don't
mind that I'm replying on-list.

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Gnarlodious <> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>> [(m, os.path.getmtime(m)) for m in (imp.find_module(module)[1] for
>> module in modules)]
>>
>> Yeah, a little hard to read. Tell me, does this formulation execute
>> imp.find_module(module) once or twice for each modname?

What this does is save a temporary list, more or less. (It's actually
a generator expression, not a list comprehension, but that's
immaterial.)

temporary = [imp.find_module(module)[1] for module in modules]
[(m, os.path.getmtime(m)) for m in temporary]

It iterates over modules, calling find_module for each, and saving the
results to a new list. Then separately iterates over the new list,
pairing each with the getmtime.

Since I used parentheses instead of square brackets in the original
expression, Python won't actually build the full list. Other than
that, it's equivalent to the two-statement version, and you can try
those two in IDLE to see what they do.

ChrisA

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:00:17 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:

>> Can I in some way assign imp.find_module(module)[1] to a variable and
>> reuse it? Is this a job for lambda?
>
> I think what you want to do is rewrite the list comprehension as a
> regular loop.
>
> my_list = []
> for module in modules:
> m = imp.find_module(module)[1]
> my_list.append(m, os.path.getmtime(m))

+1


List comprehensions are so cool that sometimes people forget that not
every loop has to be a list comp. There is no shortage of newlines in the
world, and not everything needs to be on a single line.


--
Steven