is modulefinder.ModuleFinder working at all?

[Wolfgang Maier]

On 09.11.2016 22:48, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I've not used it before, but I suspect it's meant to be used in
> "freeze" type environments. In that situation, you really do want
> everything reachable, whether the script imported it or not.

Hmm, but that's exactly the problem. It *is* supposed to report only 
what's imported and *not* everything that's available. At least that's 
how I understand the docs.

> It doesn't take much to wind up importing much of the stdlib either. Try:
>
> python -m modulefinder -m /path/to/os.py
>
> This is from Python 2.7, YMMV slightly in Py3.
>

Yeah, I have tried this as well (with other stdlib modules), but you 
shouldn't wind up things with the example bacon.py from the docs.

Best,
Wolfgang