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66 | Get the documentation string for an object. | |
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77 | Return in a single string any lines of comments immediately preceding | |
78 | the object's source code (for a class, function, or method), or at the | |
79 | top of the Python source file (if the object is a module). | |
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87 | Return the name of the (text or binary) file in which an object was | |
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105 | Return the name of the Python source file in which an object was | |
106 | defined. This will fail with a <tt class="exception">TypeError</tt> if the object | |
107 | is a built-in module, class, or function. | |
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113 | <td><var>object</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> | |
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115 | Return a list of source lines and starting line number for an object. | |
116 | The argument may be a module, class, method, function, traceback, frame, | |
117 | or code object. The source code is returned as a list of the lines | |
118 | corresponding to the object and the line number indicates where in the | |
119 | original source file the first line of code was found. An | |
120 | <tt class="exception">IOError</tt> is raised if the source code cannot be retrieved. | |
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128 | Return the text of the source code for an object. | |
129 | The argument may be a module, class, method, function, traceback, frame, | |
130 | or code object. The source code is returned as a single string. An | |
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