Return a list of imported Python modules used in a script?

Question

I am writing a program that categorizes a list of Python files by which modules they import. As such I need to scan the collection of .py files ad return a list of which mod

Answer 1

I know this is old but I was also looking for such a solution like OP did. So I wrote this code to find imported modules by scripts in a folder. It works with import abc and from abc import cde format. I hope it helps someone else.

import re
import os


def get_imported_modules(folder):
    files = [f for f in os.listdir(folder) if f.endswith(".py")]

    imports = []
    for file in files:
        with open(os.path.join(folder, file), mode="r") as f:
            lines = f.read()
            result = re.findall(r"(?