New submission from Sean Grider <sean.gri...@gmail.com>: I have a custom parser that generates html files to describe what python scripts do depending on their source comments. I use inspect.getsourcelines to parse out different comments styles (I use #@, #@@ and #$ to signal custom comments)
I recently found that getsource and getsourcelines return nothing if the file contains nothing other than a def main and it's comments. It seems that getsource stops reading after the last non-comment line. For example: def main(): """ description """ #comment1 #comment2 #comment3 getsource on the above file will return def main and the doc_string but nothing else. if however I change it to: def main(): """ description """ #comment1 #comment2 #comment3 return I now get the entire file, but just doing the following: def main(): """ description """ #comment1 my_var = 123 #comment2 #comment3 will now give me def main, the doc_string and comment1, but nothing else. Is this expected behavior? I would think that the parser should not care if the source is comments or code, I just want to read whatever is in the file. This behavior is present on 2.7.2 on both Windows 7x64 and RedHat 2.6.39.4-2.fc12.x86_64 ---------- messages: 157417 nosy: Sean.Grider priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: inspect.getsource fails to read a file of only comments type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14483> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
