Question

How to test if a module has been imported in python?

for example I need the basics:

if not has_imported("sys"):
   import sys

also

if not has_imported("sys.path"): 
   from sys import path

Thanks!

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Answer 1

If you want to optimize by not importing things twice, save yourself the hassle because Python already takes care of this.

If you need this to avoid NameErrors or something: Fix your sloppy coding – make sure you don’t need this, i.e. define (import) everything before you ever use it (in the case if imports: once, at startup, at module level).

In case you do have a good reason: sys.modules is a dictionary containing all modules already imported somewhere. But it only contains modules, and because of the way from <module> import <variable> works (import the whole module as usual, extract the things you import from it), from sys import path would only add sys to sys.modules (if it wasn’t already imported on startup). from pkg import module adds pkg.module as you probably expect.