[Pythonmac-SIG] Spotlight and Python

[Larry Meyn]

How about using pydoc <http://effbot.org/zone/pythondoc.htm> as a 
starting point?  It parses code and generates API documentation in XML 
or HTML.

Larry

On May 10, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Jonathan Wight wrote:

> I looked at parser but discounted it too soon. After a bit of playing
> I managed to get the following code to provide lists of class names
> and function names.
>
> Thanks Bob!
>
>      Jon.
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import parser
> import symbol
>
> def find(inTuple, inSymbol):
>      theClasses = []
>      if inTuple[0] == inSymbol:
>          print 'FOUND'
>          theClasses += [ inTuple[2][1] ]
>      for theItem in inTuple[1:]:
>          if type(theItem) == type(()):
>              theClasses += find(theItem, inSymbol)
>      return theClasses
>
> theSource = open('/Users/schwa/Desktop/Test.py').read()
> ast = parser.suite(theSource)
> tup = ast.totuple()
>
> print find(tup, symbol.classdef)
> print find(tup, symbol.funcdef)
>
>
>
> On May 10, 2005, at 21:52, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 10, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Jonathan Wight wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I've made a first pass at it and have a Spotlight importer that calls
>>> a built-in Python function to import a file's metadata.
>>>
>>> I started to look at module inspect to find out how to extract
>>> information from a Python module but then realised that I'd need to
>>> import the file the importer is analysing. This would mean it will be
>>> executing arbitrary code inside that file. That's got to be a bad
>>> thing for security reasons.
>>>
>>> So instead I'm just going to have to use string processing to scan
>>> the file instead. Are there any modules out there for extracting
>>> information from Python script files?
>>>
>>
>> You want to use the parser module.
>>
>> -bob
>>
>>
>
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