And now for something completely boneheaded...

[Skip Montanaro]

    Warren> So with a given module, once imported, what is the way by which
    Warren> I can find out what's defined in the module and, ideally, how to
    Warren> access it?

Try

    import sys
    dir(sys)

dir() works on just about everything these days, so you can pass it classes,
instances, strings, etc.  Not everything has something useful to return, so
you may get some empty lists back (ints, float and strings come to mind).

howdy-ly y'rs

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