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Utility functions for finding modules
Utility functions for finding modules on sys.path.
find_mod finds named module on sys.path.
get_init helper function that finds __init__ file in a directory.
find_module variant of imp.find_module in std_lib that only returns path to module and not an open file object as well.
imp.find_module variant that only return path of module.
The imp.find_module returns a filehandle that we are not interested in. Also we ignore any bytecode files that imp.find_module finds.
Parameters: | name : str
path : list of str
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Returns: | filename : str
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Get __init__ file path for module directory
Parameters: | dirname : str
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Returns: | init_path : str
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Find module module_name on sys.path
Return the path to module module_name. If module_name refers to a module directory then return path to __init__ file. Return full path of module or None if module is missing or does not have .py or .pyw extension. We are not interested in running bytecode.
Parameters: | module_name : str |
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Returns: | modulepath : str
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