Get dosctring without import

[Joan Miller]

On 26 feb, 10:57, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> Joan Miller wrote:
> > When a package is imported, it gets the dosctring to store it in
> > *__doc__*.
>
> > Does that funcion is built in python? because I would want use it to
> > get the docstring without import a package
>
> Something to get you started:
>
> import ast
>
> def walk(root, stack):
>     for node in ast.iter_child_nodes(root):
>         if isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.ClassDef)):
>             yield node
>         stack.append(node)
>         for child in walk(node, stack):
>             yield child
>         del stack[-1]
>
> def get_name(node):
>     try:
>         return node.name
>     except AttributeError:
>         return "(%s)" % node.__class__.__name__
>
> def get_path(path):
>     return ".".join(get_name(node) for node in path)
>
> def find_docstrings(filename):
>     with open(filename) as f:
>         module = ast.parse(f.read())
>     print filename.center(len(filename) + 2).center(80, "=")
>     print ast.get_docstring(module)
>     print "=" * 80
>     print
>
>     path = []
>     for node in walk(module, path):
>         s = ast.get_docstring(node)
>         if s is not None:
>             name = get_path(path + [node])
>             print name.center(len(name) + 2).center(80, "-")
>             print s
>             print
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     import sys
>     args = sys.argv[1:]
>     if args:
>         for arg in args:
>             find_docstrings(arg)
>     else:
>         find_docstrings("/usr/lib/python2.6/unittest.py")
>         assert "unittest" not in sys.modules
>
> To get an idea of the differences to the import-based approach try analysing
> the following script:
>
> import random
>
> if random.choice([True, False]):
>     def f():
>         "say hello"
> else:
>     def f():
>         "kill a kitten"
>
> def g():
>     "whatever"
> del g
>
> Peter

Thanks! What I need there is:

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with open(os.path.join(path, package, '__init__.py')) as f:
    module = ast.parse(f.read())

print ast.get_docstring(module)