> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> What I like about R: if I do 'print(func)' (or fix(func)), it > prints the >> source code of the function. It would be cool if Python had something >> similar. Instead Python prints the not-so-informative >> <function func at 0xa82fae4> > > You can use inspect.getsource(obj) if obj is a module, class, method, > function, traceback, frame, or code that has a source file (e.g. > __file__, co_filename) and is defined normally (e.g. class, def): > > >>> import inspect > >>> def printsrc(obj): print inspect.getsource(obj) > > >>> import antigravity > >>> printsrc(antigravity) > > import webbrowser > > webbrowser.open(http://xkcd.com/353/)
Ahh, thank you! I like the %psource magic word, but until I get IPython installed in the office I'll use inspect.getsource. import inspect, soul print inspect.getsource(soul.getsoul) import webbrowser webbrowser.open(http://xkcd.com/413/) ;-)) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
