pywhich script - where is that module?

[Keith Dart]

Have you ever wondered where your python modules get imported from?
Here is a little script, called "pywhich", that will tell you.





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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""pywhich <modname>
Tell which Python module is imported.
"""

import sys

def main(argv):
if len(argv) < 2:
print __doc__
return
for modname in argv[1:]:
try:
mod = __import__(modname)
except:
print "No module or package by named '%s' found." % modname
else:
print "%15s : %s" % (modname, mod.__file__)

main(sys.argv)

 

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:09:25 +0000 schrieb Keith Dart:

Have you ever wondered where your python modules get imported from?
Here is a little script, called "pywhich", that will tell you.

Nice, you could add it to the python cookbook.

Thomas

 

[Dennis Benzinger]

[...]
Nice, you could add it to the python cookbook.
[...]

Just in the case the OP doesn't know where to find the cookbook:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/