[Tutor] Converting code to string

[Alan Gauld]

"Bernard Lebel" <3dbernard at gmail.com> wrote

> I'm looking for a way to convert Python code into a string.

Read the file as text?
You can find the file by checking the __file__ attribute
of a module.

> Now in the same module, I'd like to take this function and convert 
> it
> into a string:

If its the same file then you implicitly know the name of the file,
so long as nobody renames it.

> """def myFunc():
>    print 'hello world'\n"""

########### foo.py #########
def f(x): print g(x)

src = open('foo.py').read()


if __name__ == "__main__": print src
############################

There are fancier tricks you could use but for simple things that
might work? Depends on what exactly you need it for.

HTH,


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Alan Gauld
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