Simple shell script that locates a Python module and opens it in your default editor.

pyedit.sh

#!/bin/bash
# forked from gist:320305 by mmalone

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage: pyedit <python module>" 
    exit 1
fi

MODULE_LOCATION=`python -c "import $1; print $1.__file__.rstrip('c')"`

if [ -z $MODULE_LOCATION ]; then
    echo "Couldn't find module: $1"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z $EDITOR ]
    EDITOR = "vi"

$EDITOR $MODULE_LOCATION