pkgutil — Expert Playground

Utilities for finding and iterating over packages

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# pkgutil internals
import pkgutil
import sys

mod = pkgutil
print(f"Module: {mod.__name__}")
print(f"File: {getattr(mod, '__file__', 'built-in')}")
print(f"Package: {getattr(mod, '__package__', 'N/A')}")
print(f"Size in modules: {sys.getsizeof(mod)} bytes")

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