[Pythonmac-SIG] [off] Get Python Version & Installed Modules?

[Richard Gordon]

This isn't really a Mac Python question, but maybe one of you guys 
will know the answer and help me get unstuck anyway.

The story is that my virtual host, www.communitech.com, does offer 
python on Solaris, but it can only run as a cgi. They've disabled 
interactive mode and you basically can't do anything with python from 
the command line in telnet (unlike perl, which they let run in 
telnet- go figure). Anyway, this makes python a bit awkward to deal 
with and it would be very useful if there are any trick methods for 
determining the exact version that's running (i know it's 
1.5-something, but lacking interactive accesss, I don't know exactly) 
and the modules that are installed (maybe including any in 
site_python?). The idea would be to run this as a cgi and spit the 
results out into my browser.

I guess I could try to run a script that climbed the appropriate part 
of the tree, but they've also got things set up so that I don't have 
access to anything outside of my home directory, so I'm not sure if 
that will work. What I'm hoping is that python has a builtin that 
will return this information magically.

Finally, my experience with Communitech's tech support has not been 
good regarding python and it appears that no one there actually knows 
much about it, thus I am trying to figure this out on my own. Any 
help is appreciated.

Richard Gordon
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