Python emacs mode (newbie)

[Thomas Heller]

The following lets you enter a (possibly dotted)
python module name in the minibuffer after
entering M-x find-pymodule RET.
Comments welcome, I'm new to elisp.
This is for the .emacs file:

(defun find-pymodule ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((keyword (symbol-near-point)))
    (let ((text (shell-command-to-string
   (format "cmd.exe /c find-pymodule.py %s"
    (read-from-minibuffer "module? " keyword)))))
      (find-file text))))

and this is somewhere on the path, in find-pymodule.py:

import imp, sys, string

def find(parts, path=None):
    top = parts[0]
    file, pathname, stuff = imp.find_module(top, path)
    if not parts[1:]:
        return pathname
    mod = imp.load_module(top, file, pathname, stuff)
    return find(parts[1:], mod.__path__)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        sys.stdout.write(find(string.split(sys.argv[1], '.')))
    except ImportError:
        pass

I prefer to do the actual searching in python, not elisp

Thomas