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Author	eric.araujo
Recipients	Claudiu.Popa, Naddiseo, docs@python, eric.araujo
Date	2013年03月25日.02:54:47
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Message-id	<1364180087.37.0.0216439452602.issue12920@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> It seems to work perfectly on command line though. If the code is saved in a file, yes, but not in an interactive interpreter. This is not actually related to IDLE, but to the fact that inspect.getsource merely finds the __file__ attribute of the module object for its argument. If a module object has no file, the error message indicates that it’s a built-in module (like sys), but this fails to take into account the special __main__ module in an interactive interpreter. It might be worth it to improve the error message, and in any case the documentation can be improved.

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> It seems to work perfectly on command line though.
If the code is saved in a file, yes, but not in an interactive interpreter. This is not actually related to IDLE, but to the fact that inspect.getsource merely finds the __file__ attribute of the module object for its argument. If a module object has no file, the error message indicates that it’s a built-in module (like sys), but this fails to take into account the special __main__ module in an interactive interpreter.
It might be worth it to improve the error message, and in any case the documentation can be improved.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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