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3.22.1 zipimporter Objects
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<td><nobr><b><span class=
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class=
"class">zipimporter
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var>archivepath
</var>)
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Create a new zipimporter instance.
<var>archivepath
</var> must be a path to
a zipfile.
<tt class=
"class">ZipImportError
</tt> is raised if
<var>archivepath
</var> doesn't
point to a valid ZIP archive.
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class=
"method">find_module
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var>fullname
</var><big>[
</big><var>, path
</var><big>]
</big><var></var>)
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Search for a module specified by
<var>fullname
</var>.
<var>fullname
</var> must be
the fully qualified (dotted) module name. It returns the zipimporter
instance itself if the module was found, or
<tt class=
"constant">None
</tt> if it wasn't.
The optional
<var>path
</var> argument is ignored--it's there for
compatibility with the importer protocol.
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class=
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</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var>fullname
</var>)
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Return the code object for the specified module. Raise
<tt class=
"class">ZipImportError
</tt> if the module couldn't be found.
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</var>)
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Return the data associated with
<var>pathname
</var>. Raise
<tt class=
"exception">IOError
</tt>
if the file wasn't found.
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class=
"method">get_source
</tt></b>(
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<td><var>fullname
</var>)
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Return the source code for the specified module. Raise
<tt class=
"class">ZipImportError
</tt> if the module couldn't be found, return
<tt class=
"constant">None
</tt> if the archive does contain the module, but has
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class=
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</tt></b>(
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</var>)
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Return True if the module specified by
<var>fullname
</var> is a package.
Raise
<tt class=
"class">ZipImportError
</tt> if the module couldn't be found.
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class=
"method">load_module
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
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</var>)
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Load the module specified by
<var>fullname
</var>.
<var>fullname
</var> must be the
fully qualified (dotted) module name. It returns the imported
module, or raises
<tt class=
"class">ZipImportError
</tt> if it wasn't found.
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