[Tutor] There's a Programmer in Me

[Femi Banjo]

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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:10:07 -0800
> From: fomcl at yahoo.com
> To: eryksun at gmail.com
> CC: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] There's a Programmer in Me
> 
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> 
> > 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/)  ;-))
> 
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