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Re: Getting a list of all modules

From Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Getting a list of all modules
Date 2014-07-31 07:55 -0400
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In article <53da1d5a$0$29974$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

> I'm working on tab completion for module names. I have some alpha-quality 
> code working, so if I hit TAB after typing "import ma" I get this:
> 
> 
> py> import ma
> macpath      macurl2path  mailbox      mailcap      mangle       
> markupbase   math

That's kind of neat.  What do you do if the same name appears multiple 
places in your path?  It would be useful to call this out.  More than 
once, I've done "import x" and gotten a different x than I expected.  
Those kinds of problems can be tricky to debug.

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Getting a list of all modules Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-30 07:43 +0000
  Re: Getting a list of all modules Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-30 18:33 +1000
  Re: Getting a list of all modules Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-07-30 10:46 +0200
  Re: Getting a list of all modules Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-07-30 11:35 +0100
  Re: Getting a list of all modules Leo Jay <python.leojay@gmail.com> - 2014-07-30 21:22 +0800
    Re: Getting a list of all modules Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-31 10:41 +0000
      Re: Getting a list of all modules Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-31 07:55 -0400
        Re: Getting a list of all modules Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-31 23:13 +1000
      Re: Getting a list of all modules Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-31 15:59 -0400
      Re: Getting a list of all modules Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-08-01 14:39 +0100
        Re: Getting a list of all modules Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-01 15:41 +0000
          Re: Getting a list of all modules jonnicoll11@googlemail.com - 2014-08-02 14:13 -0700
            Re: Getting a list of all modules Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-02 22:22 +0100
          Re: Getting a list of all modules Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-03 14:38 +0100
  Re: Getting a list of all modules Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-30 23:27 +1000
  Re: Getting a list of all modules wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-30 06:42 -0700
  Re: Getting a list of all modules Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-07-30 08:29 -0600
  Re: Getting a list of all modules Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-07-30 09:45 -0500
  Re: Getting a list of all modules Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2014-07-31 22:55 +0400
  Bug with help (was Re: Getting a list of all modules) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-07-31 20:19 +0100
  Re: Bug with help (was Re: Getting a list of all modules) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-31 16:15 -0400
  Re: Bug with help (was Re: Getting a list of all modules) Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2014-08-02 06:17 +0400
    Re: Bug with help (was Re: Getting a list of all modules) Heinz Schmitz <HeinzSchmitz@gmx.net> - 2014-08-02 10:33 +0200
      Re: Bug with help (was Re: Getting a list of all modules) Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-08-02 13:13 +0100
      Re: Bug with help (was Re: Getting a list of all modules) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-02 14:17 -0400

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