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Kurt Peek
Kurt Peek

Reputation: 57391

In Python's imp, "ImportError: No frozen submodule named ..."

I'm trying to write a script which searches a directory for a module with a given name. I'd like to use the find_module method of Python's imp. However, I don't quite understand why the following doesn't work. I'm in a directory which contains a module iclib:

kurt@kurt-ThinkPad:~/dev/ipercron-compose/furion$ tree
.
├── iclib
│   ├── __init__.py

In that directory I can (in iPython) import iclib:

In [1]: import iclib

I can also use find_module without a path argument:

In [1]: import imp

In [2]: imp.find_module('iclib')
Out[2]: (None, 'iclib', ('', '', 5))

However, if I try to use find_module in the current directory only, I get an error:

In [3]: import os

In [4]: imp.find_module('iclib', os.getcwd())
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-ada6f3744e78> in <module>()
----> 1 imp.find_module('iclib', os.getcwd())

ImportError: No frozen submodule named /home/kurt/dev/ipercron-compose/furion.iclib

Why doesn't this work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1416

Answers (1)

Kurt Peek
Kurt Peek

Reputation: 57391

Following this issue on bugs.python.org, the path argument needs to be embedded within a list:

In [4]: imp.find_module('iclib',[os.getcwd()])
Out[4]: (None, '/home/kurt/dev/ipercron-compose/furion/iclib', ('', '', 5))

With square brackets around the os.getcwd(), the function returns the expected output.

Upvotes: 9

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