[Tutor] There's a Programmer in Me

[Hugo Arts]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> > The core developers are too busy to be hand-holding a newbie who
> > doesn't know any Python,
>
> Well, in a way they *can*: I find it very inspiring to read the source
> code of Python (the .py files), though I don't do this as often as I should.
>
> 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>
>
>
I don't think you'd want the generic 'print' to do this (though repr()
might be a good candidate). In any case, IPython can do it with %psource:
http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.10.2/html/interactive/tutorial.html#explore-your-objects
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