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BlueTrin
BlueTrin

Reputation: 10063

Getting Module from Type

Is there a way in Python to get the module from a type ? I have an object which I can get the type but I am unable to see where the type is defined.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1107

Answers (1)

poke
poke

Reputation: 387647

You can use inspect.getmodule to retrieve the module object the specified object was defined in.

For example:

>>> import inspect
>>> from collections import Counter
>>> c = Counter()
>>> inspect.getmodule(c)
<module 'collections' from 'C:\\Program Files\\Python34\\lib\\collections\\__init__.py'>
>>> inspect.getmodule(Counter)
<module 'collections' from 'C:\\Program Files\\Python34\\lib\\collections\\__init__.py'>

Upvotes: 4

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