If I want to use imp to find some load modules, I have to do it in quite an "unpythonic" way:

>>> name = "os"
>>> file, pathname, description = imp.find_module(name)
>>> imp.load_module(name, file, pathname, description)

Can there not be a better way to pass the tuple (or other object) between find_module() and load_module()?

I'm happy to patch this myself and submit, if it's not already been thought about.

Does importlib in Python3 provide what you need?  (New features such as this cannot be added to Python2.)

imp e imp.find/load_module() are also deprecated (or will be deprecated soon).

Thanks for the swift feedback guys, if this is deprecated (i.e. not being carried to Python 3) then close the bug; I'll look at `importlib` and see if it carries the same problem.

Both imp.find_module() and load_module() have been documented as deprecated since Python 3.3. I have not added the warning as I have to work through the stdlib first to remove all current uses.

But for what you are after, Joe, just use importlib.import_module() (which is available in Python 2.7 in the stdlib and earlier on PyPI).

Hi Brett, I missed the fact that it's deprecated as it's not mentioned in the 2.* docs http://docs.python.org/2/library/imp.html.

I can see it is in the 3.*.

Thanks for the feedback.