I would like to get a list of Python modules, which are in my Python installation (UNIX server).
How can you get a list of Python modules installed in your computer?
This solution is primary based on modules importlib
and pkgutil
and work with CPython 3.4 and CPython 3.5, but has no support for the CPython 2.
Explanation
sys.builtin_module_names
- names all built-in modules (look my answer here)pkgutil.iter_modules()
- returns an information about all available modulesimportlib.util.find_spec()
- returns an information about importing module, if existsBuiltinImporter
- an importer for built-in modules (docs)SourceFileLoader
- an importer for a standard Python module (by default has extension *.py) (docs)ExtensionFileLoader
- an importer for modules as shared library (written on the C or C++)Full code
import sys
import os
import shutil
import pkgutil
import importlib
import collections
if sys.version_info.major == 2:
raise NotImplementedError('CPython 2 is not supported yet')
def main():
# name this file (module)
this_module_name = os.path.basename(__file__).rsplit('.')[0]
# dict for loaders with their modules
loaders = collections.OrderedDict()
# names`s of build-in modules
for module_name in sys.builtin_module_names:
# find an information about a module by name
module = importlib.util.find_spec(module_name)
# add a key about a loader in the dict, if not exists yet
if module.loader not in loaders:
loaders[module.loader] = []
# add a name and a location about imported module in the dict
loaders[module.loader].append((module.name, module.origin))
# all available non-build-in modules
for module_name in pkgutil.iter_modules():
# ignore this module
if this_module_name == module_name[1]:
continue
# find an information about a module by name
module = importlib.util.find_spec(module_name[1])
# add a key about a loader in the dict, if not exists yet
loader = type(module.loader)
if loader not in loaders:
loaders[loader] = []
# add a name and a location about imported module in the dict
loaders[loader].append((module.name, module.origin))
# pretty print
line = '-' * shutil.get_terminal_size().columns
for loader, modules in loaders.items():
print('{0}\n{1}: {2}\n{0}'.format(line, len(modules), loader))
for module in modules:
print('{0:30} | {1}'.format(module[0], module[1]))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Usage
For the CPython3.5 (truncated)
$ python3.5 python_modules_info.py
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30:
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_ast | built-in
_codecs | built-in
_collections | built-in
_functools | built-in
_imp | None
_io | built-in
_locale | built-in
_operator | built-in
_signal | built-in
_sre | built-in
_stat | built-in
_string | built-in
_symtable | built-in
_thread | built-in
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227:
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__future__ | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/__future__.py
_bootlocale | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_bootlocale.py
_collections_abc | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_collections_abc.py
_compat_pickle | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_compat_pickle.py
_compression | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_compression.py
_dummy_thread | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_dummy_thread.py
_markupbase | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_markupbase.py
_osx_support | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_osx_support.py
_pydecimal | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_pydecimal.py
_pyio | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_pyio.py
_sitebuiltins | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/_sitebuiltins.py
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64:
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_bisect | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload/_bisect.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_bz2 | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload/_bz2.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_cn | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload/_codecs_cn.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_hk | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload/_codecs_hk.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_iso2022 | /usr/local/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload/_codecs_iso2022.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
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For the CPython3.4 (truncated)
$ python3.4 python_modules_info.py
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54:
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_ast | built-in
_bisect | built-in
_codecs | built-in
_collections | built-in
_datetime | built-in
_elementtree | built-in
_functools | built-in
_heapq | built-in
_imp | None
_io | built-in
_locale | built-in
_md5 | built-in
_operator | built-in
_pickle | built-in
_posixsubprocess | built-in
_random | built-in
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246:
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__future__ | /usr/lib/python3.4/__future__.py
_bootlocale | /usr/lib/python3.4/_bootlocale.py
_collections_abc | /usr/lib/python3.4/_collections_abc.py
_compat_pickle | /usr/lib/python3.4/_compat_pickle.py
_dummy_thread | /usr/lib/python3.4/_dummy_thread.py
_markupbase | /usr/lib/python3.4/_markupbase.py
_osx_support | /usr/lib/python3.4/_osx_support.py
_pyio | /usr/lib/python3.4/_pyio.py
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_bz2 | /usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/_bz2.cpython-34m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_cn | /usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/_codecs_cn.cpython-34m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_hk | /usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/_codecs_hk.cpython-34m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_iso2022 | /usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/_codecs_iso2022.cpython-34m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_jp | /usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/_codecs_jp.cpython-34m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_kr | /usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/_codecs_kr.cpython-34m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_codecs_tw | /usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/_codecs_tw.cpython-34m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
_crypt | /usr/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload/_crypt.cpython-34m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
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