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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-04-10 15:12:34 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-04-10 15:12:34 (GMT) |
commit | 90a72f8dcd0983d92d3740e332e80fc195da1d5b (patch) | |
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Add documentation for getmoduleinfo() and getmodulename().
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex b/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex index 38cca74..6101ad8 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex @@ -93,6 +93,29 @@ you can expect to find the following special attributes: only members for which the predicate returns a true value are included. \end{funcdesc} +\begin{funcdesc}{getmoduleinfo}{path} + Return a tuple of values that describe how Python will interpret the + file identified by \var{path} if it is a module, or \code{None} if + it would not be identified as a module. The return tuple is + \code{(\var{name}, \var{suffix}, \var{mode}, \var{mtype})}, where + \var{name} is the name of the module without the name of any + enclosing package, \var{suffix} is the trailing part of the file + name (which may not be a dot-delimited extension), \var{mode} is the + \function{open()} mode that would be used (\code{'r'} or + \code{'rb'}), and \var{mtype} is an integer giving the type of the + module. \var{mtype} will have a value which can be compared to the + constants defined in the \refmodule{imp} module; see the + documentation for that module for more information on module types. +\end{funcdesc} + +\begin{funcdesc}{getmodulename}{path} + Return the name of the module named by the file \var{path}, without + including the names of enclosing packages. This uses the same + algortihm as the interpreter uses when searching for modules. If + the name cannot be matched according to the interpreter's rules, + \code{None} is returned. +\end{funcdesc} + \begin{funcdesc}{ismodule}{object} Return true if the object is a module. \end{funcdesc} |