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re.match.func_code.co_filename returns "re.py"
I expect something like "/usr/lib/python2.5/re.py"
This causes issues in the "inspect"-module like:
>>> inspect.getabsfile(re.match)
>>> '<current-dir>/re.py'
Sorry, this is my first python-bugreport, please ping me if you need any
further details.
Markus

I can't reproduce this.
How did you install Python?
Python 2.5.2a0 (release25-maint, Nov 27 2007, 14:00:00) 
[GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> re.match.func_code.co_filename
'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/re.py'
>>>

Thanks for your fast reply.
I'm using the python package of ubuntu-feisty,
$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:50:07) 
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> re.match.func_code.co_filename
're.py'
>>> 
So maybe it's ubuntu-specific!?

Then I suggest you talk to the Ubuntu developers or whoever packaged
Python 2.5.1 for it.

I'm able to reproduce the problem on Ubuntu. It's probably caused by
their compile step in python2.5.postinst:
 cd /usr/lib/python2.5
 files=$(dpkg -L python2.5 | sed -n
'/\.py$/s,^/usr/lib/python2.5/,,p')
 /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/lib/python2.5/py_compile.py $files
 if grep -sq '^byte-compile[^#]*optimize'
/etc/python/debian_config; then
 /usr/bin/python2.5 -O /usr/lib/python2.5/py_compile.py $files
 fi
It's compiling the py files relative to /usr/lib/python2.5. Please note
that the behavior of py_compile.py is intended. The relative path is
useful for people who pack the compiled files into a zip file or egg file.

Well, if they do that, they apparently break inspect.py. Should they
be doing that? Why are they doing that? Can you contact the Ubuntu
folks about this?

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Guido van Rossum added the comment:
> 
> Well, if they do that, they apparently break inspect.py. Should they
> be doing that? Why are they doing that? Can you contact the Ubuntu
> folks about this?
No, they shouldn't. It may be plain ignorance or they have a hidden
agenda. I'm going to contact the Debian maintainers. I'm sure the Ubuntu
guys have copied the behavior from Debian.
Christian

I proposed to the maintainer that he should change one line to 
 dpkg -L python2.5 | sed -n '/\.py$/p'
In the mean time you can easily fix the issue with:
sudo find /usr/lib/python2.5 -name '*.py[co]' -delete
sudo python2.5 /usr/lib/python2.5/compileall.py /usr/lib/python2.5/
sudo python2.5 -O /usr/lib/python2.5/compileall.py /usr/lib/python2.5/

Thanks a lot, this works.
Markus