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[Python-ideas] Function-like Modules (better control/introspection)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Mar 17 18:41:20 CET 2014 
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:38:47 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > (while looking at this, I was surprised that dis.dis(some_module)
> > 1) doesn't show a disassembly for the module toplevel 2) shows
> > disassembly for objects which some_module imports from other modules)
> 
> I don't think we have any tests to see how dis.dis behaves with module
> objects - it's likely just hitting the path that is designed to disassemble
> all methods on a class. (We throw away the bytecode after execution for
> classes as well)

A comment in dis.dis's source code does talk about modules, so
apparently someone thought about them, but not very hard :-)

(edit: that someone is you - b2a9a59c2d57 ;-P)

Regards

Antoine.
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