Summary

Locate a python object (package, module, function, class …) source file.

Usage

pywhereis [-v] [-s] dotted_name...

CMD line Examples

• The pywhereis script accept a package, module, function or a class

  $ pywhereis shlex
  shlex: /usr/lib/python2.7/shlex.py
  $ pywhereis os.path.abspath
  os.path.abspath: /usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py  337

• You can pass more than one dotted-name to it

  $ pywhereis shlex inspect.ismodule
  shlex: /usr/lib/python2.7/shlex.py
  inspect.ismodule: /usr/lib/python2.7/inspect.py  51

• If the name is a function, class or method the result will contain the line number where the object is defined

  $ pywhereis unittest.TestCase.assertEqual
  unittest.TestCase.assertEqual: /usr/lib/python2.7/unittest.py  344

• It will fail localizing object that are not pure python

  $ pywhereis.py sys
  sys:

• For more info about why the localization fail you can use the verbose mode

  $ pywhereis -v sys
  sys: Error: <module 'sys' (built-in)> is not pure python.

• If it’s run with -s, –site-packages option the script will check first in site-packages instead of the default which is to check in the current dir first

  $ cd ~ ; touch os.py
  $ pywhereis os
  os: /home/mouad/os.py
  $ pywhereis -s os
  os: /usr/lib/python2.7/os.py

  Note: Option only available for python3.2 and below !

• For python2.7 and above you can also do

  $ python2.7 -mpywhereis subprocess.Popen
  subprocess.Popen: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py 33

  Note: The above will only work if pywhereis was installed in that python version.

• Of course you can still search in a different python version by running this script using that python

  $ python3.4 $(which pywhereis) html
  html: /usr/local/lib/python3.4/html/__init__.py

Code Examples

This package come also with a python package whereis that can be used like so

>>> import whereis
>>> whereis.resolve('sys')
<module 'sys' (built-in)>
>>> whereis.locate('os')
'/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py'

CHANGES