On Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:00:59 UTC+5:30, (unknown) wrote: > 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.
You could scan the text for code and then ast.parse() it. Then you know how... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
