cached

invalidate_caches() Clear out the internal cache.

find_loader(fullname) Attempt to find the loader to handle fullname within path.

classmethod path_hook(*loader_details) A class method which returns a closure for use on sys.path_hooks. An instance of FileFinder is returned by the closure using the path argument given to the closure directly and loader_details indirectly. If the argument to the closure is not an existing directory, ImportError is raised.

find_spec(fullname, target=None) Attempt to find the spec to handle fullname within path. New in version 3.4.

path The path the finder will search in.

class importlib.machinery.FileFinder(path, *loader_details) A concrete implementation of importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder which caches results from the file system. The path argument is the directory for which the finder is in charge of searching. The loader_details argument is a variable number of 2-item tuples each containing a loader and a sequence of file suffixes the loader recognizes. The loaders are expected to be callables which accept two arguments of the module’s name and the path to

name Name of the module the loader supports.

path Path to the extension module.

importlib.machinery.EXTENSION_SUFFIXES A list of strings representing the recognized file suffixes for extension modules. New in version 3.3.