On May 18, 1:41 pm, superpollo <ute...@esempio.net> wrote: > Patrick Maupin ha scritto: > > > > > On May 18, 12:31 pm, superpollo <ute...@esempio.net> wrote: > >> >>> def myfun(): > >> ... return "WOW" > >> ... > >> >>> myfun() > >> 'WOW' > > >> now, i would like to "list" the funcion definition, something like this: > > >> >>> myfun.somethinglikethis() > >> def myfun(): > >> return "WOW" > > >> is there something like this around? > > >> bye > > > Sure, just give it a docstring and then you can call help on it: > > >>>> def myfun(): > > ... ''' myfun returns "WOW" when called. > > ... This is just a Python __doc__ string > > ... ''' > > ... return "WOW" > > ... > >>>> help(myfun) > > > Regards, > > Pat > > mmm... thanks but not quite what i meant :-( > > bye
Well, I don't think Python remembers exactly how you typed it in, but you can always ask Python for what it remembers about the function: >>> def myfun(): ... return "WOW" ... >>> import dis >>> dis.dis(myfun) 2 0 LOAD_CONST 1 ('WOW') 3 RETURN_VALUE The inspect module is useful, as well. But AFAIK Python doesn't "remember" the source code for stuff you typed in. (For functions in imported modules, there is sufficient information remembered for tracebacks to allow you to print out the lines of a function.) Regards, Pat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list