Marco Buttu added the comment:
I saw there is the same lack of clarity in the doc of `inspect.getsource()`:
>>> import inspect
>>> print(inspect.getsource.__doc__)
Return the text of the source code for an object.
The argument may be a module, class, method, function, traceback, frame,
or code object. The source code is returned as a single string. An
IOError is raised if the source code cannot be retrieved.
>>> def foo():
... pass
...
>>> inspect.getsource(foo)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/inspect.py", line 726, in getsource
lines, lnum = getsourcelines(object)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/inspect.py", line 715, in getsourcelines
lines, lnum = findsource(object)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/inspect.py", line 563, in findsource
raise IOError('could not get source code')
OSError: could not get source code
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