Finding source from class or instance?

[Emile van Sebille]

An instance has access to a __class__ attribute, and a class
to a module attribute, and sys.modules holds the file name
in which the class was defined.

srceClass = inst.__class__
srceModule = srceClass.__module__
sys.modules[srceModule].__file__

or in one step from an instance:

sys.modules[inst.__class__.__module__].__file__

That gets you to the file anyway.  If you're so inclined,
you can then open, read and extract the code for the class.

HTH,

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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"Stuart Stanley" <stuarts at 171.69.180.197> wrote in message
news:979777210.145620 at sj-nntpcache-5...
>
>
> Folks,
>
> Is there a (easy!) way to get the source code from a class
or instance
> of a class?  A preference would lie in just getting the
source of the
> base class itself, but I would settle for getting the file
name where
> the base class lives in.  I figure the information is
sitting in the
> modules somewhere, but I don't know how to navigate there
to get it....
>
> Thanks!  --stuart
>
>
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