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# Module: `utils.module_paths`

Utility functions for finding modules

Utility functions for finding modules on sys.path.

find_mod finds named module on sys.path.

get_init helper function that finds __init__ file in a directory.

find_module variant of imp.find_module in std_lib that only returns path to module and not an open file object as well.

## 3 Functions

`IPython.utils.module_paths.``find_module`(name, path=None)

  imp.find_module variant that only return path of module.

  The imp.find_module returns a filehandle that we are not interested in. Also we ignore any bytecode files that imp.find_module finds.

  Parameters:

  name : str

  > name of module to locate

  path : list of str

  > list of paths to search for name. If path=None then search sys.path

  Returns:

  filename : str

  > Return full path of module or None if module is missing or does not have .py or .pyw extension

`IPython.utils.module_paths.``get_init`(dirname)

  Get __init__ file path for module directory

  Parameters:

  dirname : str

  > Find the __init__ file in directory dirname

  Returns:

  init_path : str

  > Path to __init__ file

`IPython.utils.module_paths.``find_mod`(module_name)

  Find module module_name on sys.path

  Return the path to module module_name. If module_name refers to a module directory then return path to __init__ file. Return full path of module or None if module is missing or does not have .py or .pyw extension. We are not interested in running bytecode.

  Parameters: | module_name : str

  Returns:

  modulepath : str

  > Path to module module_name.

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