Any tools to print source code call hierarchy

[Lothar Scholz]

Scott Chapman <scott_list at mischko.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1062873250.31920.python-list at python.org>...
> I'm sure I'm not using the conventional names for this tool, more of a 
> cross-referencer?.  I couldn't find it on Google, I think for this reason.
> 
> I need a tool that will go through a python module (ClientForm in this case) 
> and allow me to specify a starting module to parse and tell me what all it 
> uses.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to take ClientForm apart enough to pull out just the 
> html form parsing code in it and use it elsewhere.  It would be MUCH easier 
> when approaching someone elses code if I could see what all functions are 
> called by a given function, etc.

Because python is a dynamical typed non image language there is no
tool that can do this and there never will be any (at least one that
is not using heuristics or sampled data from previous runs).