Impish

A friendly helper library for the imp module.

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Introduction

Impish implements helper methods which wrap imp module functionality to provide a friendlier programming interface with nicer exception handling.

It is MIT-licensed.

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###Definitons

imp |imp|
noun
a mischievous child: a cheeky young imp.
• a small, mischievous devil or sprite.

verb [ with obj. ]
repair a damaged feather in (the wing or tail of a trained hawk) by attaching part of a new feather.

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impish |ˈimpiSH|
adjective
inclined to do slightly naughty things for fun; mischievous: he had an impish look about him.

DERIVATIVES
impishly adverb,
impishness noun

Source: New Oxford American Dictionary, via Apple OS X Dictionary app.

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Examples

1. Finding a module's absolute file path

>>> import impish
>>> impish.find('os').filename
/path/to/os.py

Finding a module's file object

>>> impish.find('os').file
<file object>

>>> impish.find(os).file
<file object>

2. Checking for a built-in

>>> impish.isbuiltin('sys')
True

>>> impish.isbuiltin('os')
False

3. Checking for source

>>> impish.issource('sys')
False

>>> impish.isbuiltin('os')
True

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TODOS

• Add tests for other type checking functions
• Docstrings
• Make find work with already imported modules
• add setup.py file

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Impish is a codebrow.se package written by Michael Van Veen.