Module Browsing?

[Emile van Sebille]

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Nick Perkins" <nperkins7 at home.com> wrote in message
news:Yr_J6.96417$HF.21608516 at news4.rdc1.on.home.com...
> I often find myself doing the following:
>
> 1) hear about a cool module
> 2) install it, or (more often),
>    find that i already have it (but didn't know about it)
> 3) >>>import cool
> 4) >>>dir(cool)
> 5) >>>cool.something(
> (..see if IDLE shows an informative tool tip)
> 5) if it does, it's a function, i try it out
> 6) if not, it's a value, i see what it is
> 7) if the value is an object, i dir() it....
>
> What I want to know is:
>
> Is there an easier way to 'browse' a module from the command line?
> I would like to able to (quickly) see module values and their type,
> module functions and their parameters and doc strings, etc.
>
> Is there a way to get a list of modules that i have installed?
> If i wrote a script to do this, how would it work?
> e.g.( walk sys.path, list all .py files, etc..)
>
> ( but i'm sure it has been done, i just don't understand
>   how modules work well enough )
>
> ...here's another thing:
> can i import a module that is not on the sys.path
> by giving it's full path?
>
>