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:mod:`imp` --- Access the :keyword:`import` internals
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.. module:: imp
:synopsis: Access the implementation of the import statement.
.. index:: statement: import
This module provides an interface to the mechanisms used to implement the
:keyword:`import` statement. It defines the following constants and functions:
.. function:: get_magic()
.. index:: pair: file; byte-code
Return the magic string value used to recognize byte-compiled code files
(:file:`.pyc` files). (This value may be different for each Python version.)
.. function:: get_suffixes()
Merged revisions 57221-57391 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r57227 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-20 17:16:21 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Catch ProtocolError exceptions and include the header information in test output (to make it easier to debug test failures caused by problems in the server). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57229 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:04:47 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57230 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:05:16 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57253 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:01:18 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Demand version 2.5.1 since 2.5 has a bug with codecs.open context managers. ........ r57254 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:03:43 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Revert accidental checkins from last commit. ........ r57255 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:07:08 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1777160: mention explicitly that e.g. -1**2 is -1. ........ r57256 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:12:19 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1777168: replace operator names "opa"... with "op1"... and mark everything up as literal, to enhance readability. ........ r57259 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-21 09:57:18 -0700 (Tue, 21 Aug 2007) | 8 lines Added test for behavior of operations on an unconnected SMTP object, and tests for NOOP, RSET, and VRFY. Corrected typo in a comment for testNonnumericPort. Added a check for constructing SMTP objects when non-numeric ports are included in the host name. Derived a server from SMTPServer to test various ESMTP/SMTP capabilities. Check that a second HELO to DebuggingServer returns an error. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57279 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:02:16 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Note that BeOS is unsupported as of Python 2.6. ........ r57280 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:05:21 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 1 line whoops - need to check in configure as well ........ r57284 | alex.martelli | 2007-08-22 14:14:17 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Fix compile.c so that it records 0.0 and -0.0 as separate constants in a code object's co_consts tuple; add a test to show that the previous behavior (where these two constants were "collapsed" into one) causes serious malfunctioning. ........ r57286 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-22 14:32:34 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines stop leaving log.0000001 __db.00* and xxx.db turds in developer sandboxes when bsddb3 tests are run. ........ r57301 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2007-08-22 16:14:27 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it print a slightly more informative message. ........ r57320 | brett.cannon | 2007-08-23 07:53:17 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Make test_runpy re-entrant. ........ r57324 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:54:11 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1768121: fix wrong/missing opcode docs. ........ r57326 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:57:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1766421: "return code" vs. "status code". ........ r57328 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:08:06 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Second half of #1752175: #ifdef out references to PyImport_DynLoadFiletab if HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined. ........ r57331 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:11:33 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Use try-except-finally in contextlib. ........ r57343 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:35:00 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1697820: document that the old slice protocol is still used by builtin types. ........ r57345 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:40:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1573854: fix docs for sqlite3 cursor rowcount attr. ........ r57347 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:50:23 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1694833: fix imp.find_module() docs wrt. packages. ........ r57348 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:53:28 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1594966: fix misleading usage example ........ r57349 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:55:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Clarify wording a bit. ........ r57351 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:18:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1752332: httplib no longer uses socket.getaddrinfo(). ........ r57352 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:21:36 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1734111: document struct.Struct.size. ........ r57353 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:27:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring. ........ r57354 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:36:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1625381: clarify match vs search introduction. ........ r57355 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:42:54 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1758696: more info about descriptors. ........ r57357 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:55:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1779550: remove redundant code in logging. ........ r57378 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-23 22:11:38 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix bug 1725856. ........ r57382 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 23:10:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines uuid creation is now threadsafe, backport from py3k rev. 57375. ........ r57389 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-24 04:47:37 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1765375: fix stripping of unwanted LDFLAGS. ........ r57391 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-24 07:53:14 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix silly typo in test name. ........
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Return a list of 3-element tuples, each describing a particular type of
module. Each triple has the form ``(suffix, mode, type)``, where *suffix* is
a string to be appended to the module name to form the filename to search
for, *mode* is the mode string to pass to the built-in :func:`open` function
to open the file (this can be ``'r'`` for text files or ``'rb'`` for binary
files), and *type* is the file type, which has one of the values
:const:`PY_SOURCE`, :const:`PY_COMPILED`, or :const:`C_EXTENSION`, described
below.
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.. function:: find_module(name[, path])
Merged revisions 57221-57391 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r57227 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-20 17:16:21 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Catch ProtocolError exceptions and include the header information in test output (to make it easier to debug test failures caused by problems in the server). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57229 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:04:47 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57230 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:05:16 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57253 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:01:18 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Demand version 2.5.1 since 2.5 has a bug with codecs.open context managers. ........ r57254 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:03:43 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Revert accidental checkins from last commit. ........ r57255 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:07:08 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1777160: mention explicitly that e.g. -1**2 is -1. ........ r57256 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:12:19 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1777168: replace operator names "opa"... with "op1"... and mark everything up as literal, to enhance readability. ........ r57259 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-21 09:57:18 -0700 (Tue, 21 Aug 2007) | 8 lines Added test for behavior of operations on an unconnected SMTP object, and tests for NOOP, RSET, and VRFY. Corrected typo in a comment for testNonnumericPort. Added a check for constructing SMTP objects when non-numeric ports are included in the host name. Derived a server from SMTPServer to test various ESMTP/SMTP capabilities. Check that a second HELO to DebuggingServer returns an error. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57279 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:02:16 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Note that BeOS is unsupported as of Python 2.6. ........ r57280 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:05:21 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 1 line whoops - need to check in configure as well ........ r57284 | alex.martelli | 2007-08-22 14:14:17 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Fix compile.c so that it records 0.0 and -0.0 as separate constants in a code object's co_consts tuple; add a test to show that the previous behavior (where these two constants were "collapsed" into one) causes serious malfunctioning. ........ r57286 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-22 14:32:34 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines stop leaving log.0000001 __db.00* and xxx.db turds in developer sandboxes when bsddb3 tests are run. ........ r57301 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2007-08-22 16:14:27 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it print a slightly more informative message. ........ r57320 | brett.cannon | 2007-08-23 07:53:17 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Make test_runpy re-entrant. ........ r57324 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:54:11 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1768121: fix wrong/missing opcode docs. ........ r57326 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:57:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1766421: "return code" vs. "status code". ........ r57328 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:08:06 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Second half of #1752175: #ifdef out references to PyImport_DynLoadFiletab if HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined. ........ r57331 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:11:33 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Use try-except-finally in contextlib. ........ r57343 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:35:00 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1697820: document that the old slice protocol is still used by builtin types. ........ r57345 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:40:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1573854: fix docs for sqlite3 cursor rowcount attr. ........ r57347 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:50:23 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1694833: fix imp.find_module() docs wrt. packages. ........ r57348 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:53:28 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1594966: fix misleading usage example ........ r57349 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:55:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Clarify wording a bit. ........ r57351 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:18:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1752332: httplib no longer uses socket.getaddrinfo(). ........ r57352 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:21:36 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1734111: document struct.Struct.size. ........ r57353 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:27:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring. ........ r57354 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:36:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1625381: clarify match vs search introduction. ........ r57355 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:42:54 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1758696: more info about descriptors. ........ r57357 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:55:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1779550: remove redundant code in logging. ........ r57378 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-23 22:11:38 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix bug 1725856. ........ r57382 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 23:10:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines uuid creation is now threadsafe, backport from py3k rev. 57375. ........ r57389 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-24 04:47:37 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1765375: fix stripping of unwanted LDFLAGS. ........ r57391 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-24 07:53:14 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix silly typo in test name. ........
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Try to find the module *name* on the search path *path*. If *path* is a list
of directory names, each directory is searched for files with any of the
suffixes returned by :func:`get_suffixes` above. Invalid names in the list
are silently ignored (but all list items must be strings). If *path* is
omitted or ``None``, the list of directory names given by ``sys.path`` is
searched, but first it searches a few special places: it tries to find a
built-in module with the given name (:const:`C_BUILTIN`), then a frozen
module (:const:`PY_FROZEN`), and on some systems some other places are looked
in as well (on the Mac, it looks for a resource (:const:`PY_RESOURCE`); on
Windows, it looks in the registry which may point to a specific file).
If search is successful, the return value is a 3-element tuple ``(file,
pathname, description)``:
*file* is an open file object positioned at the beginning, *pathname* is the
pathname of the file found, and *description* is a 3-element tuple as
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contained in the list returned by :func:`get_suffixes` describing the kind of
Merged revisions 57221-57391 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r57227 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-20 17:16:21 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Catch ProtocolError exceptions and include the header information in test output (to make it easier to debug test failures caused by problems in the server). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57229 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:04:47 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57230 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:05:16 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57253 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:01:18 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Demand version 2.5.1 since 2.5 has a bug with codecs.open context managers. ........ r57254 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:03:43 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Revert accidental checkins from last commit. ........ r57255 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:07:08 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1777160: mention explicitly that e.g. -1**2 is -1. ........ r57256 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:12:19 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1777168: replace operator names "opa"... with "op1"... and mark everything up as literal, to enhance readability. ........ r57259 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-21 09:57:18 -0700 (Tue, 21 Aug 2007) | 8 lines Added test for behavior of operations on an unconnected SMTP object, and tests for NOOP, RSET, and VRFY. Corrected typo in a comment for testNonnumericPort. Added a check for constructing SMTP objects when non-numeric ports are included in the host name. Derived a server from SMTPServer to test various ESMTP/SMTP capabilities. Check that a second HELO to DebuggingServer returns an error. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57279 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:02:16 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Note that BeOS is unsupported as of Python 2.6. ........ r57280 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:05:21 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 1 line whoops - need to check in configure as well ........ r57284 | alex.martelli | 2007-08-22 14:14:17 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Fix compile.c so that it records 0.0 and -0.0 as separate constants in a code object's co_consts tuple; add a test to show that the previous behavior (where these two constants were "collapsed" into one) causes serious malfunctioning. ........ r57286 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-22 14:32:34 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines stop leaving log.0000001 __db.00* and xxx.db turds in developer sandboxes when bsddb3 tests are run. ........ r57301 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2007-08-22 16:14:27 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it print a slightly more informative message. ........ r57320 | brett.cannon | 2007-08-23 07:53:17 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Make test_runpy re-entrant. ........ r57324 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:54:11 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1768121: fix wrong/missing opcode docs. ........ r57326 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:57:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1766421: "return code" vs. "status code". ........ r57328 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:08:06 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Second half of #1752175: #ifdef out references to PyImport_DynLoadFiletab if HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined. ........ r57331 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:11:33 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Use try-except-finally in contextlib. ........ r57343 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:35:00 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1697820: document that the old slice protocol is still used by builtin types. ........ r57345 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:40:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1573854: fix docs for sqlite3 cursor rowcount attr. ........ r57347 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:50:23 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1694833: fix imp.find_module() docs wrt. packages. ........ r57348 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:53:28 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1594966: fix misleading usage example ........ r57349 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:55:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Clarify wording a bit. ........ r57351 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:18:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1752332: httplib no longer uses socket.getaddrinfo(). ........ r57352 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:21:36 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1734111: document struct.Struct.size. ........ r57353 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:27:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring. ........ r57354 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:36:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1625381: clarify match vs search introduction. ........ r57355 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:42:54 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1758696: more info about descriptors. ........ r57357 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:55:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1779550: remove redundant code in logging. ........ r57378 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-23 22:11:38 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix bug 1725856. ........ r57382 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 23:10:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines uuid creation is now threadsafe, backport from py3k rev. 57375. ........ r57389 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-24 04:47:37 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1765375: fix stripping of unwanted LDFLAGS. ........ r57391 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-24 07:53:14 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix silly typo in test name. ........
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module found.
If the module does not live in a file, the returned *file* is ``None``,
*pathname* is the empty string, and the *description* tuple contains empty
strings for its suffix and mode; the module type is indicated as given in
parentheses above. If the search is unsuccessful, :exc:`ImportError` is
raised. Other exceptions indicate problems with the arguments or
environment.
If the module is a package, *file* is ``None``, *pathname* is the package
path and the last item in the *description* tuple is :const:`PKG_DIRECTORY`.
This function does not handle hierarchical module names (names containing
dots). In order to find *P*.*M*, that is, submodule *M* of package *P*, use
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:func:`find_module` and :func:`load_module` to find and load package *P*, and
then use :func:`find_module` with the *path* argument set to ``P.__path__``.
When *P* itself has a dotted name, apply this recipe recursively.
Merged revisions 57221-57391 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r57227 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-20 17:16:21 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Catch ProtocolError exceptions and include the header information in test output (to make it easier to debug test failures caused by problems in the server). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57229 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:04:47 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57230 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:05:16 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57253 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:01:18 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Demand version 2.5.1 since 2.5 has a bug with codecs.open context managers. ........ r57254 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:03:43 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Revert accidental checkins from last commit. ........ r57255 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:07:08 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1777160: mention explicitly that e.g. -1**2 is -1. ........ r57256 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:12:19 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1777168: replace operator names "opa"... with "op1"... and mark everything up as literal, to enhance readability. ........ r57259 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-21 09:57:18 -0700 (Tue, 21 Aug 2007) | 8 lines Added test for behavior of operations on an unconnected SMTP object, and tests for NOOP, RSET, and VRFY. Corrected typo in a comment for testNonnumericPort. Added a check for constructing SMTP objects when non-numeric ports are included in the host name. Derived a server from SMTPServer to test various ESMTP/SMTP capabilities. Check that a second HELO to DebuggingServer returns an error. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57279 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:02:16 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Note that BeOS is unsupported as of Python 2.6. ........ r57280 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:05:21 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 1 line whoops - need to check in configure as well ........ r57284 | alex.martelli | 2007-08-22 14:14:17 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Fix compile.c so that it records 0.0 and -0.0 as separate constants in a code object's co_consts tuple; add a test to show that the previous behavior (where these two constants were "collapsed" into one) causes serious malfunctioning. ........ r57286 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-22 14:32:34 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines stop leaving log.0000001 __db.00* and xxx.db turds in developer sandboxes when bsddb3 tests are run. ........ r57301 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2007-08-22 16:14:27 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it print a slightly more informative message. ........ r57320 | brett.cannon | 2007-08-23 07:53:17 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Make test_runpy re-entrant. ........ r57324 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:54:11 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1768121: fix wrong/missing opcode docs. ........ r57326 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:57:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1766421: "return code" vs. "status code". ........ r57328 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:08:06 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Second half of #1752175: #ifdef out references to PyImport_DynLoadFiletab if HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined. ........ r57331 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:11:33 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Use try-except-finally in contextlib. ........ r57343 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:35:00 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1697820: document that the old slice protocol is still used by builtin types. ........ r57345 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:40:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1573854: fix docs for sqlite3 cursor rowcount attr. ........ r57347 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:50:23 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1694833: fix imp.find_module() docs wrt. packages. ........ r57348 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:53:28 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1594966: fix misleading usage example ........ r57349 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:55:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Clarify wording a bit. ........ r57351 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:18:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1752332: httplib no longer uses socket.getaddrinfo(). ........ r57352 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:21:36 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1734111: document struct.Struct.size. ........ r57353 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:27:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring. ........ r57354 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:36:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1625381: clarify match vs search introduction. ........ r57355 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:42:54 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1758696: more info about descriptors. ........ r57357 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:55:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1779550: remove redundant code in logging. ........ r57378 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-23 22:11:38 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix bug 1725856. ........ r57382 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 23:10:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines uuid creation is now threadsafe, backport from py3k rev. 57375. ........ r57389 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-24 04:47:37 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1765375: fix stripping of unwanted LDFLAGS. ........ r57391 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-24 07:53:14 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix silly typo in test name. ........
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.. function:: load_module(name, file, pathname, description)
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Load a module that was previously found by :func:`find_module` (or by an
otherwise conducted search yielding compatible results). This function does
more than importing the module: if the module was already imported, it will
Merged revisions 57221-57391 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r57227 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-20 17:16:21 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Catch ProtocolError exceptions and include the header information in test output (to make it easier to debug test failures caused by problems in the server). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57229 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:04:47 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57230 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:05:16 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on 64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for 32bit Windows platforms. ........ r57253 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:01:18 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Demand version 2.5.1 since 2.5 has a bug with codecs.open context managers. ........ r57254 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:03:43 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Revert accidental checkins from last commit. ........ r57255 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:07:08 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1777160: mention explicitly that e.g. -1**2 is -1. ........ r57256 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:12:19 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1777168: replace operator names "opa"... with "op1"... and mark everything up as literal, to enhance readability. ........ r57259 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-21 09:57:18 -0700 (Tue, 21 Aug 2007) | 8 lines Added test for behavior of operations on an unconnected SMTP object, and tests for NOOP, RSET, and VRFY. Corrected typo in a comment for testNonnumericPort. Added a check for constructing SMTP objects when non-numeric ports are included in the host name. Derived a server from SMTPServer to test various ESMTP/SMTP capabilities. Check that a second HELO to DebuggingServer returns an error. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre] ........ r57279 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:02:16 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Note that BeOS is unsupported as of Python 2.6. ........ r57280 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:05:21 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 1 line whoops - need to check in configure as well ........ r57284 | alex.martelli | 2007-08-22 14:14:17 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 5 lines Fix compile.c so that it records 0.0 and -0.0 as separate constants in a code object's co_consts tuple; add a test to show that the previous behavior (where these two constants were "collapsed" into one) causes serious malfunctioning. ........ r57286 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-22 14:32:34 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines stop leaving log.0000001 __db.00* and xxx.db turds in developer sandboxes when bsddb3 tests are run. ........ r57301 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2007-08-22 16:14:27 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it print a slightly more informative message. ........ r57320 | brett.cannon | 2007-08-23 07:53:17 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Make test_runpy re-entrant. ........ r57324 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:54:11 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1768121: fix wrong/missing opcode docs. ........ r57326 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:57:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1766421: "return code" vs. "status code". ........ r57328 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:08:06 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Second half of #1752175: #ifdef out references to PyImport_DynLoadFiletab if HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined. ........ r57331 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:11:33 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Use try-except-finally in contextlib. ........ r57343 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:35:00 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1697820: document that the old slice protocol is still used by builtin types. ........ r57345 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:40:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1573854: fix docs for sqlite3 cursor rowcount attr. ........ r57347 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:50:23 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1694833: fix imp.find_module() docs wrt. packages. ........ r57348 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:53:28 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1594966: fix misleading usage example ........ r57349 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:55:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Clarify wording a bit. ........ r57351 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:18:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1752332: httplib no longer uses socket.getaddrinfo(). ........ r57352 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:21:36 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1734111: document struct.Struct.size. ........ r57353 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:27:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring. ........ r57354 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:36:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1625381: clarify match vs search introduction. ........ r57355 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:42:54 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1758696: more info about descriptors. ........ r57357 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:55:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1779550: remove redundant code in logging. ........ r57378 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-23 22:11:38 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix bug 1725856. ........ r57382 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 23:10:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines uuid creation is now threadsafe, backport from py3k rev. 57375. ........ r57389 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-24 04:47:37 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1765375: fix stripping of unwanted LDFLAGS. ........ r57391 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-24 07:53:14 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix silly typo in test name. ........
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reload the module! The *name* argument indicates the full
module name (including the package name, if this is a submodule of a
package). The *file* argument is an open file, and *pathname* is the
corresponding file name; these can be ``None`` and ``''``, respectively, when
the module is a package or not being loaded from a file. The *description*
argument is a tuple, as would be returned by :func:`get_suffixes`, describing
what kind of module must be loaded.
If the load is successful, the return value is the module object; otherwise,
an exception (usually :exc:`ImportError`) is raised.
**Important:** the caller is responsible for closing the *file* argument, if
it was not ``None``, even when an exception is raised. This is best done
using a :keyword:`try` ... :keyword:`finally` statement.
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.. function:: new_module(name)
Return a new empty module object called *name*. This object is *not* inserted
in ``sys.modules``.
.. function:: lock_held()
Return ``True`` if the import lock is currently held, else ``False``. On
platforms without threads, always return ``False``.
On platforms with threads, a thread executing an import holds an internal lock
until the import is complete. This lock blocks other threads from doing an
import until the original import completes, which in turn prevents other threads
from seeing incomplete module objects constructed by the original thread while
in the process of completing its import (and the imports, if any, triggered by
that).
.. function:: acquire_lock()
Acquires the interpreter's import lock for the current thread. This lock should
be used by import hooks to ensure thread-safety when importing modules. On
platforms without threads, this function does nothing.
.. function:: release_lock()
Release the interpreter's import lock. On platforms without threads, this
function does nothing.
The following constants with integer values, defined in this module, are used to
indicate the search result of :func:`find_module`.
.. data:: PY_SOURCE
The module was found as a source file.
.. data:: PY_COMPILED
The module was found as a compiled code object file.
.. data:: C_EXTENSION
The module was found as dynamically loadable shared library.
.. data:: PY_RESOURCE
The module was found as a Mac OS 9 resource. This value can only be returned on
a Mac OS 9 or earlier Macintosh.
.. data:: PKG_DIRECTORY
The module was found as a package directory.
.. data:: C_BUILTIN
The module was found as a built-in module.
.. data:: PY_FROZEN
The module was found as a frozen module (see :func:`init_frozen`).
The following constant and functions are obsolete; their functionality is
available through :func:`find_module` or :func:`load_module`. They are kept
around for backward compatibility:
.. data:: SEARCH_ERROR
Unused.
.. function:: init_builtin(name)
Initialize the built-in module called *name* and return its module object along
with storing it in ``sys.modules``. If the module was already initialized, it
will be initialized *again*. Re-initialization involves the copying of the
built-in module's ``__dict__`` from the cached module over the module's entry in
``sys.modules``. If there is no built-in module called *name*, ``None`` is
returned.
.. function:: init_frozen(name)
Initialize the frozen module called *name* and return its module object. If
the module was already initialized, it will be initialized *again*. If there
is no frozen module called *name*, ``None`` is returned. (Frozen modules are
modules written in Python whose compiled byte-code object is incorporated
into a custom-built Python interpreter by Python's :program:`freeze`
utility. See :file:`Tools/freeze/` for now.)
.. function:: is_builtin(name)
Return ``1`` if there is a built-in module called *name* which can be
initialized again. Return ``-1`` if there is a built-in module called *name*
which cannot be initialized again (see :func:`init_builtin`). Return ``0`` if
there is no built-in module called *name*.
.. function:: is_frozen(name)
Return ``True`` if there is a frozen module (see :func:`init_frozen`) called
*name*, or ``False`` if there is no such module.
.. function:: load_compiled(name, pathname, [file])
.. index:: pair: file; byte-code
Load and initialize a module implemented as a byte-compiled code file and return
its module object. If the module was already initialized, it will be
initialized *again*. The *name* argument is used to create or access a module
object. The *pathname* argument points to the byte-compiled code file. The
*file* argument is the byte-compiled code file, open for reading in binary mode,
from the beginning. It must currently be a real file object, not a user-defined
class emulating a file.
.. function:: load_dynamic(name, pathname[, file])
Load and initialize a module implemented as a dynamically loadable shared
library and return its module object. If the module was already initialized, it
will be initialized *again*. Re-initialization involves copying the ``__dict__``
attribute of the cached instance of the module over the value used in the module
cached in ``sys.modules``. The *pathname* argument must point to the shared
library. The *name* argument is used to construct the name of the
initialization function: an external C function called ``initname()`` in the
shared library is called. The optional *file* argument is ignored. (Note:
using shared libraries is highly system dependent, and not all systems support
it.)
.. function:: load_source(name, pathname[, file])
Load and initialize a module implemented as a Python source file and return its
module object. If the module was already initialized, it will be initialized
*again*. The *name* argument is used to create or access a module object. The
*pathname* argument points to the source file. The *file* argument is the
source file, open for reading as text, from the beginning. It must currently be
a real file object, not a user-defined class emulating a file. Note that if a
properly matching byte-compiled file (with suffix :file:`.pyc` or :file:`.pyo`)
exists, it will be used instead of parsing the given source file.
.. class:: NullImporter(path_string)
The :class:`NullImporter` type is a :pep:`302` import hook that handles
non-directory path strings by failing to find any modules. Calling this type
with an existing directory or empty string raises :exc:`ImportError`.
Otherwise, a :class:`NullImporter` instance is returned.
Python adds instances of this type to ``sys.path_importer_cache`` for any path
entries that are not directories and are not handled by any other path hooks on
``sys.path_hooks``. Instances have only one method:
.. method:: NullImporter.find_module(fullname [, path])
This method always returns ``None``, indicating that the requested module could
not be found.
.. _examples-imp:
Examples
--------
The following function emulates what was the standard import statement up to
Python 1.4 (no hierarchical module names). (This *implementation* wouldn't work
in that version, since :func:`find_module` has been extended and
:func:`load_module` has been added in 1.4.) ::
import imp
import sys
def __import__(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=None):
# Fast path: see if the module has already been imported.
try:
return sys.modules[name]
except KeyError:
pass
# If any of the following calls raises an exception,
# there's a problem we can't handle -- let the caller handle it.
fp, pathname, description = imp.find_module(name)
try:
return imp.load_module(name, fp, pathname, description)
finally:
# Since we may exit via an exception, close fp explicitly.
if fp:
fp.close()
.. index:: module: knee
A more complete example that implements hierarchical module names and includes a
:func:`reload` function can be found in the module :mod:`knee`. The :mod:`knee`
module can be found in :file:`Demo/imputil/` in the Python source distribution.