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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:33:07 +1000
Subject: Re: Getting a list of all modules
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Is this problem already solved? Can anyone make any suggestions?

I don't know of an actual solution, but I know where I'd look for one,
and that's importlib. If nothing else, you can use
importlib.machinery.all_suffixes() rather than hard-coding them, for
instance.

ChrisA