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Created March 3, 2010 03:21
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Simple shell script that locates a Python module and opens it in vi.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: vipy <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
vi $MODULE_LOCATION
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