Checking for module availability programmatically in Python?

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given a list of module names (e.g. mymods = ['numpy', 'scipy', ...]) how can I check if the modules are available?

I tried the following but it's incorrect:

for module_name in mymods:
  try:
    import module_name
  except ImportError:
    print "Module %s not found." %(module_name)

thanks.

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