Actually on Python2 "(name)" is not interpreted as a single element tuple
but as a parenthesized string, which is the same as the string itself, so
it works the same.
Antony

2015-07-25 11:18 GMT-07:00 Jun T. <takimoto-j@kba.biglobe.ne.jp>:

>
> 2015/07/25 12:37, Antony Lee <antony.lee@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > so replacing
> >
> >   local script='import sys, pydoc
> > def f(p,m,d):
> >   if m.find(".") < 0: sys.stdout.write(m+"\n")
> > pydoc.ModuleScanner().run(f)'
> >
> > by
> >
> >   local script='import pkgutil
> > for importer, name, ispkg in pkgutil.iter_modules(): print(name)'
> >
> > in _python_modules yields a big improvement in speed.
>
> Thanks. It is indeed *much* faster.
>
> Do you think using 'print(name)' is sufficiently portable?
> It seems it works with Python 2.x, because it is interpreted
> as a print statement with a single-element tuple '(name)'.
>