[Tutor] Unable to take input as a module

[Ewald Ertl]

Hello rakesh,

Perhaps this could take you further:

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>>> a=__import__("inspect")
>>> a
<module 'inspect' from 'inspect.pyc'>
>>> a.ismodule(a)
True


HTH Ewald

Rakesh Mishra wrote:
> hi
> 
> I am trying to write a program, which ask for user input for a name
> then determines it wither that is module or not, if module then it will
> tell  all its
> attributes, methods, function etc
> 
> my code:
> ..........
> .
> import sys, types, string, inspect
> 
> input= sys.argv[1] 
> print  inspect.ismodule(input)
> ................
> 
> here it always give false.  as what ever  input i take it is string .
> 
> my problem is i am not able to take input as a module
> help me out !
> thanks in advance.
> rakesh
> 
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