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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-04-10 15:12:34 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-04-10 15:12:34 (GMT)
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Add documentation for getmoduleinfo() and getmodulename().
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@@ -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}