Re: Retracing your steps in an interactive python env

2009-09-15 Thread Bernhard Voigt
On Sep 14, 9:52 pm, Jack Norton wrote: > Anyway, I have created a function using def, and well, I like the way it > is working, however...  I have already filled the command line history > buffer (the com.exe buffer?) so _what_ I actually filled this def with > is lost.  Now, it isn't that compli

Re: Retracing your steps in an interactive python env

2009-09-14 Thread TerryP
Under unix and cygwin, it's also possible to use GNU Screen, along with a much larger then default defscrollback value. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Retracing your steps in an interactive python env

2009-09-14 Thread Robert Kern
Steven D'Aprano wrote: I wonder whether there's a third party module which will take the output of dis.dis and try to reverse engineer Python code from it? There used to be decompyle, but it hasn't been kept up-to-date, at least not publicly. There used to be a service that would use an updat

Re: Retracing your steps in an interactive python env

2009-09-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:52:34 -0500, Jack Norton wrote: > it would be really nice to be > able to _ask_ python what makes up a def. Something like this (remember > I am using IPython interactive interpreter session): > In [0]: def func(input): > .:>>>print "im in this function!" + str(input

Re: Retracing your steps in an interactive python env

2009-09-14 Thread TerryP
I'm not sure what the best way to do this is, other then that it would mean asking the interp to explain it in a format we understand ;). In the (c)python library reference, I see an inspect module that sounds like it should be useful, but it doesn't work on my test case here: >>> def foo(x, y):

Re: Retracing your steps in an interactive python env

2009-09-14 Thread Mensanator
On Sep 14, 2:52 pm, Jack Norton wrote: > Hello all, > > I am playing around in a python shell (IPython on win32 right now > actually).  I am writing some code on the fly to interface to a rotary > encoder (not important in this scope). > > Anyway, I have created a function using def, and well, I l

Re: Retracing your steps in an interactive python env

2009-09-14 Thread r
On Sep 14, 2:52 pm, Jack Norton wrote: > Hello all, > > I am playing around in a python shell (IPython on win32 right now > actually).  I am writing some code on the fly to interface to a rotary > encoder (not important in this scope). > > Anyway, I have created a function using def, and well, I l

Retracing your steps in an interactive python env

2009-09-14 Thread Jack Norton
Hello all, I am playing around in a python shell (IPython on win32 right now actually). I am writing some code on the fly to interface to a rotary encoder (not important in this scope). Anyway, I have created a function using def, and well, I like the way it is working, however... I have a