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inspect.ismodule()

members and modules

Checks that an object is a module (types.ModuleType), the result of an import rather than a module name as a string.

Syntax

inspect.ismodule(object) -> bool

The string 'os' is not a module; to look one up by name use sys.modules or importlib.import_module. A package is a module too: ismodule(json) is True, and ispackage() (3.14+) or the presence of __path__ tells the difference. os.path is also a module (posixpath or ntpath) even though it reads like an attribute.

Examples

import inspect, json, os
print(inspect.ismodule(os), inspect.ismodule('os'))  # → True False
print(inspect.ismodule(os.path), inspect.ismodule(json))  # → True True

See also

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