How to find the file name contains a module in an egg file?

Question

I need to find a file contains the module from an egg file.

For example: module_name = "plugins" And the return file within the egg file: "mypackage/plugins.py"

How to do that without importing the module?

Sorry i am not very clear about my question. I don't want to import the module. — Sean Nguyen, Apr 28 '17 at 19:15
Then maybe this leads you down the right path: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4693608/find-path-of-module-without-importing-in-python — Grimmy, Apr 28 '17 at 19:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '17 at 18:33

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Assuming I understand the question..

Just use importlib and try to import the module.

from importlib import import_module

package_name = "mypackage"
try:
     module = import_module("{}.{}".format(package_name, "plugins")
except ImportError:
     # The module does not exist

If the module is importable, module will contain a reference to the initialised module. module.__file__ will also give you the path to the python file.

answered Apr 28 '17 at 18:33

Grimmy

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Thanks for the suggestion but I don't want to import the module. I updated my question to reflect that. – Sean Nguyen Apr 28 '17 at 19:16

How to find the file name contains a module in an egg file?

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