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+# Find if a Python module is installed
+# Found at http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2011-January/041666.html
+# To use do: find_python_module(PyQt4 REQUIRED)
+function(find_python_module module)
+	string(TOUPPER ${module} module_upper)
+	if(NOT PY_${module_upper})
+		if(ARGC GREATER 1 AND ARGV1 STREQUAL "REQUIRED")
+			set(${module}_FIND_REQUIRED TRUE)
+		endif()
+		# A module's location is usually a directory, but for binary modules
+		# it's a .so file.
+		execute_process(COMMAND "${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}" "-c" 
+			"import re, ${module}; print(re.compile('/__init__.py.*').sub('',${module}.__file__))"
+			RESULT_VARIABLE _${module}_status 
+			OUTPUT_VARIABLE _${module}_location
+			ERROR_QUIET 
+			OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+		if(NOT _${module}_status)
+			set(PY_${module_upper} ${_${module}_location} CACHE STRING 
+				"Location of Python module ${module}")
+		endif(NOT _${module}_status)
+	endif(NOT PY_${module_upper})
+	find_package_handle_standard_args(PY_${module} DEFAULT_MSG PY_${module_upper})
+endfunction(find_python_module)