[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:45 PM 7/27/04 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:25, Tim Peters wrote:
>>
>>>Sure!  Jim wants to distinguish "absenceness" from "brokenness" for
>>>some reason.
>>
>>So, why doesn't imp.find_module() fit the bill?
>
>It doesn't handle packages.
>
> >>> import compiler.ast
> >>> import imp
> >>> imp.find_module('compiler.ast')
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>ImportError: No module named compiler.ast

Sure it does; you just have to ask it nicely:  :)

Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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IDLE 0.8 -- press F1 for help
 >>> import imp
 >>> imp.find_module('compiler')
(None, 'C:\\PYTHON22\\lib\\compiler', ('', '', 5))
 >>> import compiler
 >>> imp.find_module('ast',compiler.__path__)
(<open file 'C:\PYTHON22\lib\compiler\ast.py', mode 'r' at 0x00A99660>, 
'C:\\PYTHON22\\lib\\compiler\\ast.py', ('.py', 'r', 1))
 >>>