Hi,

I would like to access the AST of a python object at runtime. I mean, if I have 
this:

def f(x): return x*x/2

Is there any way to interrogate the object f to find out the AST of the 
expression x*x/2 ? Of course if the definition of f were in a file, I could use 
the ast module to parse it; but what I want is to do this from within the code.

The closest thing I was able to find was f.__code__, and more specifically 
f.__code__.co_code, but that is a byte-string which seems to be the bytecode 
(?) for the function.

This may not be possible at all; maybe after the def statement is processed by 
the Python interpreter the AST information is discarded. But I wanted to check 
here if someone knows one way or another.

Many thanks.
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