pyloc 0.1.8

Locate python object definition in your file-system

pyloc prints the location of the definition of any python object in your file-system.

Introduction

pyloc is very similar to what python3 -m inspect -d <object> offers. However, it is only focused to retrieve the file name (and eventually the line number) defining a given Python object. The object can be a package, module, class, method or function.

pyloc makes some further effort to figure out the line and column number and its outputs is formatted so that it can easily be passed to emacsclient or vi.

pyloc works with Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4.

Examples

You can see the location of Popen.wait method in the sub-process package:

$ python -m pyloc -f human subprocess:Popen.wait
Filename: /Users/polrop/.pyenv/versions/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py
Line: 1379

$ python -m pyloc -f human email.utils:formataddr
Filename: /Users/polrop/.pyenv/versions/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/email/utils.py
Line: 85

(Output may be different on your system since you have different installation path and version)

Note that the object naming syntax is as follow: module[:qualname]

To open it in Emacs you can do:

$ emacsclient `python -m pyloc -f emacs subprocess:Popen.wait`

or in vim:

$ vim `python -m pyloc -f vi subprocess:Popen.wait`

If you are lazy typing -f <format> all the time and you often use the same format, you can set the default output format this way (you can add this line in your .zshenv or .bashrc):

$ export PYLOC_DEFAULT_FORMAT=emacs

pyloc will always locate object based on the python interpreter your are using:

$ python3 -m pyloc -f human subprocess:Popen.wait
Filename: /Users/polrop/.pyenv/versions/3.4.3/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py
Line: 1526

$ /usr/local/bin/python -m pyloc -f human email.utils:formataddr
Filename: /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/email/utils.py
Line: 85

$ /usr/bin/python -m pyloc -f human email.utils:formataddr
Filename: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/email/utils.py
Line: 85

Installation

pip

You can install _pyloc_ using pip like this:

$ pip install pyloc

or

$ pip3 install pyloc

From source

Clone this repository and run:

$ python setup.py develop

Known bugs

• Classes or built-in types like int or str do not contain location information. In this case pyloc tries to look for the name in the AST. This procedure may not be accurate since Python is a dynamic language.

Hacking

See HACKING for details.

License

pyloc is released under the term of the Simplified BSD License. Copyright (c) 2015, Nicolas Desprès All rights reserved.

As noted in the source code, some part has been inspired by code from the inspect module written by Ka-Ping Yee <[e-mail]> and Yury Selivanov <[e-mail]> form the Python 3.4.3 distribution (see the LICENSE file in the python distribution)