Context-aware return

Sven R. Kunze srkunze at mail.de
Thu Sep 10 14:56:08 EDT 2015


Oops, missing print:

On 10.09.2015 20:45, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> On 10.09.2015 20:34, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
>> You are right. I turned out to me harder that I first thought.
>>
>> My initial guess was like: use AST. But now I see, it would be hard 
>> to get the source code.
>>
>> So, what actually could work, would be faking the interactive 
>> interpreter wrapping it up and thus have control over the source code 
>> typed in.
>
> Ha, got it:  sys.settrace
>
> >>> def traceit(frame, event, arg):
...    print(frame, event, arg)
> ... return traceit
>
> >>> sys.settrace(traceit)
>
> >>> a=1
> (<frame object at 0x7ff9016785c0>, 'call', None)
> (<frame object at 0x7ff9016785c0>, 'line', None)
> (<frame object at 0x7ff9016785c0>, 'return', (u'a=1\n', 4))
> (<frame object at 0x7ff90168a1f8>, 'call', None)
> (<frame object at 0x7ff90168a1f8>, 'line', None)
> (<frame object at 0x7ff90168a1f8>, 'return', None)
>
>
> There you got the source. The use an AST to find out whether the line 
> fits your definition of 'interactive'.
>
> That should only be necessary when the top frame is interactive.
>
>
> Best,
> Sven




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