[docs] [issue12920] inspect.getsource fails to get source of local classes

Éric Araujo report at bugs.python.org
Fri Sep 9 19:16:18 CEST 2011


Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> inspect.getsource called with a class defined in the same file fails
> with TypeError: <module '__main__' (built-in)> is a built-in class

The error message makes me think that getsource(__main__) was used, not getsource(SomeClass).  Can you check again?

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nosy: +eric.araujo
title: Inspect.getsource fails to get source of local classes -> inspect.getsource fails to get source of local classes
versions:  -Python 3.1

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