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Bobby Chopra
Bobby Chopra

Reputation: 25

Dump Contents of Python Module loaded in memory

I ran the Python REPL tool and imported a Python Module. Can I can dump the contents of that Module into a file? Is this possible? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1706

Answers (3)

Aaron Altman
Aaron Altman

Reputation: 1755

You might get a start by getting a reference to your module object:

modobject = __import__("modulename")

Unfortunately those aren't pickleable. You might be able to iterate over dir(modobject) and get some good info out catching errors along the way... or is a string representation of dir(modobject) itself what you want?

Upvotes: 0

John La Rooy
John La Rooy

Reputation: 304443

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.datamech.com/devan/trypython/trypython.py

I don't think it is possible, as this is a very restricted environment.
The __file__ attribute is faked, so doesn't map to a real file

Upvotes: 0

Alex Martelli
Alex Martelli

Reputation: 882611

In what format do you want to write the file? If you want exactly the same format that got imported, that's not hard -- but basically it's done with a file-to-file copy. For example, if the module in question is called blah, you can do:

>>> import shutil
>>> shutil.copy(blah.__file__, '/tmp/blahblah.pyc')

Upvotes: 1

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