Hi Kent, When try your approach, I get an IOError.
>>> import inspect >>> def myFunc(): ... print 'hello world' ... >>> >>> s = inspect.getsource(myFunc) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "C:\Python24\lib\inspect.py", line 552, in getsource lines, lnum = getsourcelines(object) File "C:\Python24\lib\inspect.py", line 541, in getsourcelines lines, lnum = findsource(object) File "C:\Python24\lib\inspect.py", line 410, in findsource raise IOError('could not get source code') IOError: could not get source code Why? Because I'm using an API (the Softimage|XSI scripting API) where I have to create a custom GUI (using that API's GUI toolkit). I have to attach a logic callback to a number of widgets that can change from one execution to the next. The only way to do that, in that API, is to define the callback functions "on-the-fly". And to define such a callback, the API requires that the function must be represented as a string. All strings are then joined and "injected" (the terminology used in the doc) into the GUI object. Since the XSI API also supports JScript, it is my feeling that this part of the GUI toolkit was designed with JScript's toString() method in mind, which works beautifully. I'm looking to do the same in Python. Thanks! Bernard On 8/23/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernard Lebel wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for a way to convert Python code into a string. > > > > For example, let say I have this function: > > > > def myFunc(): > > print 'hello world' > > > > > > Now in the same module, I'd like to take this function and convert it > > into a string: > > > > """def myFunc(): > > print 'hello world'\n""" > > Try inspect.getsource(myFunc). But why? > > Kent > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor