interpreter frame

[Bengt Richter]

On 10 Aug 2005 15:08:21 -0700, "Leo" <leo.uaz at gmail.com> wrote:

>Good try, but that doesn't seem to work either. Maybe I should have
>emphasized that what I really want is the line of code, as opposed to
>the entire frame. Here is the output of sys._getframe() on my system:
>
>Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb  2 2005, 12:11:53)
>[GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import sys
>>>> sys._getframe()
><frame object at 0x9fbce0c>
>>>> from inspect import *
>>>> getframeinfo(sys._getframe())
>('<stdin>', 1, '?', None, None)
>
>Is it different in 2.4? Maybe there is something else in sys.* that I
>am having trouble finding?
>
Isn't there some requirement of having a source file in order to get
the line of code, which an interactive session does not satisfy?
(Maybe a strategically located StringIO instance encapsulating the latest
interactive chunk as "source file" could solve it?)

Regards,
Bengt Richter