cc @pforai, @gppezzi

So the check is now independent whether it's hidden or not? lgtm

@wpoely86: yes, it basically fall backs to checking with module show in case the exact module name is not listed in the output of module avail

This occurs for hidden modules (e.g. .foo/1.2.3) and external modules with a partial module name (e.g. checking if PrgEnv-gnu is available, while avail spits out PrgEnv-gnu/5.2.40).

There's no harm in always falling back to show, except for maybe making things slower (modtool.exist will also check via avail first).

Maybe I should add an extra named argument to modtool.exist to specify that it should skip the avail check?

@wpoely86: done, please rereview? Using skip_avail=True makes sense anywhere where only a single module name is provided (show is likely faster than avail in the case)

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