Various other methods here as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8808714/how-can-i-access-the-list-of-modules-that-pythons-helpmodules-displays
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Russell Hay <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > Try this: > http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/pkg_resources.html#workingset-objects > > The WorkingSet should give you all modules available as well as version. > > On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:45 PM, David Goldsmith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ...containing, as strings, all installed modules? (I tried simply x = > help('modules') and it didn't crash, but when it got done, print x just > printed None.) If not, is there a way to do it more "elegant" than > returning a directory listing of site-packages and then filtering that for > just the .py files? Thanks! > >
