Problem with inspect.getfile

[elventear]

Hello,

I am trying to use someone else's module that makes use of
inspect.getsourcelines. The code was not working for me, so I have
been debugging to see why it is not working. I have reduced my problem
to getting the wrong file path in the getfile->return
object.co_filename call.

Basically the path I get is:

"/Users/elventear/Documents/UTMEM/Projects/geotools/parsers/parser.py"

When the correct path should be:

"/Users/elventear/Documents/UTMEM/Projects/packages/geotools/parsers/
parser.py"

Finally my PYTHONPATH contains:

"/Users/elventear/Documents/UTMEM/Projects/packages"

So basically, I am able to resolve correctly the package from withing
Python, I don't know why there is this confusion about the filename
that contains my objects and methods.

Any ideas on how to correct this would be appreciated.

This is under MacOSX 10.4.9, Python 2.5 (Build from Fink).

Thanks!

 

[elventear]

Found the offending code. I was importing between files that were at
the same level of the hierarchy without using absolute references.
Coded worked fine, but inspect didn't. Was this gaffe on my part? Or
was inspect supposed to handle it?

Thanks!

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

Found the offending code. I was importing between files that were at
the same level of the hierarchy without using absolute references.
Coded worked fine, but inspect didn't. Was this gaffe on my part? Or
was inspect supposed to handle it?

Could you provide an example?

 

[elventear]

Could you provide an example?

Simple example

My PYTHONPATH points to /python

I have the following:

/python/packages
__init.py__
/containers
__init.py__
module1.py
module2.py

So basically module2 depends on module1. So within module2.py I was I
was doing "import module1" instead of import
"packages.containers.module1". My code ran ok, but the functions in
the inspect module weren't able to handle it (getfile was the source
of the problem).

Thanks.

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

Simple example

My PYTHONPATH points to /python

I have the following:

/python/packages
__init.py__
/containers
__init.py__
module1.py
module2.py

So basically module2 depends on module1. So within module2.py I was I
was doing "import module1" instead of import
"packages.containers.module1". My code ran ok, but the functions in
the inspect module weren't able to handle it (getfile was the source
of the problem).

I tried it with Python 2.5 on Windows XP and couldn't make it fail.
Perhaps it is specific to the Mac, or perhaps it depends on other details
like __init__.py contents, order of imports, or how specifically you
import things.