[Python-Dev] confusing exec error message in 3.0 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Aug 29 03:39:01 CEST 2008


Steven D'Aprano wrote:

I don't think M.file should lie and say it was loaded from a file that it wasn't loaded from. It's useful to be able to look at a module and see what file it was actually loaded from.

On the other hand, it could be useful to be able to find the source file for a module, regardless of whether it was loaded from a .py, .pyc or .pyo.

Maybe there should be a source attribute for that?

Or is os.path.splitext(M.file)[0] + ".py" considered good enough for that?

-- Greg



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