How to find the code of a function in a module [solved w/ inspect]

[thessjshawn]

I am creating a program that will allow the user to input "code" and then the name of a function for a program. What sort of code will allow me to search through the program for the name of the function and then print out the code of the function to the user?

Thanks

[bartonc]

This aught to do the trick

import inspect

def function():
    pass

def func1():
    print "func1"

def func2():
    print "func2"
    return 0

def find_function(funcname):
    """I cheated on fuction type compare because I was too busy to find out
    what the actual type a function is, but this works"""

    code = None
    for key, item in globals().items():
        if type(item) == type(function):
            if key == funcname:
                code = inspect.getsourcelines(item)
    return code

lines_of_code = find_function("func2")

if lines_of_code:
    for line in lines_of_code[0]:
        print line,