pywhereis 0.0.1

Unix whereis-like python script and package to find the source file of python object (package, module, function, class ...).

Summary

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

Usage

pywhereis [-v] dotted_name...

CMD line Examples

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

  $ pywhereis shlex
  shlex: /usr/lib/python2.6/shlex.py
  $ pywhereis os.path.abspath
  os.path.abspath: /usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py  337

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

  $ pywhereis shlex inspect.ismodule
  shlex: /usr/lib/python2.6/shlex.py
  inspect.ismodule: /usr/lib/python2.6/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/python2.6/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 built-in.

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

  $ python3.2 /path/to/pywhereis html
  html: /usr/local/lib/python3.2/html/__init__.py

• For python2.7 and above you can also do

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

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/python2.6/os.py'