Re: find out whether a module exists (without importing it)

Chris Angelico

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08-07-2012

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Gelonida N <> wrote:
> modulename = 'my.module'
> cmd = 'import %s as amodule'
> try:
> exec(cmd)
> print "imported successfully"

Someone will doubtless correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can
avoid exec here with:

amodule=__import__(modulename)

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