console command to get the path of a function

[Irmen de Jong]

On 12/20/2009 1:45 PM, mattia wrote:
> Hi all, is there a way in the python shell to list the path of a library
> function (in order to look at the source code?).
>
> Thanks, Mattia

something like this?

 >>> import inspect
 >>> import os
 >>> inspect.getsourcefile(os.path.split)
'C:\\Python26\\lib\\ntpath.py'
 >>> print inspect.getsource(os.path.split)
def split(p):
     """Split a pathname.
  ...
  ...


--irmen