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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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