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Yes, the pkgutil version will only return modules that are present as files. So the modules that come builtin, compiled right into python won't be included. This is usually not a problem as such scripts are typically used for dependency scanning, and you don't care about builtins in such case — grats on hitting 10k btw ;).

spectras
– spectras

2020-05-19 14:23:13 +00:00
Commented May 19, 2020 at 14:23
If you look where help('modules') is implemented, github.com/python/cpython/blob/… you can just copy/paste that code and get the output in a list, parsing the stdout of a function call is hacky.

user3064538
– user3064538

2021-01-23 02:14:05 +00:00
Commented Jan 23, 2021 at 2:14

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