Steven> I've been known to monkey-patch builtins in the interactive
Steven> interpreter and in test code.
Me too. I use a slightly beefed up dir() funcion which identifies modules
within a package which haven't been imported yet. Handy for quick-n-dirty
introspection.
>>> import email
>>> dir(email)
['Charset', 'Encoders', 'Errors', 'FeedParser', 'Generator', 'Header',
'Iterators', 'LazyImporter', 'MIMEAudio', 'MIMEBase', 'MIMEImage',
'MIMEMessage', 'MIMEMultipart', 'MIMENonMultipart', 'MIMEText',
'Message', 'Parser', 'Utils', '[_parseaddr]', '[base64mime]',
'[charset]', '[encoders]', '[errors]', '[feedparser]', '[generator]',
'[header]', '[iterators]', '[message]', '[parser]', '[quoprimime]',
'[test/]', '[utils]', '_LOWERNAMES', '_MIMENAMES', '__all__',
'__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__',
'__path__', '__version__', '_name', 'base64MIME', 'email', 'importer',
'message_from_file', 'message_from_string', 'mime', 'quopriMIME', 'sys']
Those names with [...] bracketing the names are submodules or subpackages of
the email package which haven't been imported yet.
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