A Python3 pretty-printer that also does introspection to detect the original name of the passed variables

pydump

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# pydump
# A Python3 pretty-printer that also does introspection to detect the original
# name of the passed variables
#
# Jean-Charles Lefebvre <polyvertex@gmail.com>
# Latest version at: http://gist.github.com/polyvertex (pydump)

import sys
import pprint
import inspect
import ast

def dbg_dump(
        *args,
        dumpopt_stream=sys.stderr,
        dumpopt_forcename=True,
        dumpopt_pformat={'indent': 2},
        dumpopt_srcinfo=1,
        **kwargs):
    """
    Pretty-format every passed positional and named parameters, in that order,
    prefixed by their **original** name (i.e.: the one used by the caller), or
    by their type name for literals.

    Depends on the ``pprint``, ``inspect`` and ``ast`` standard modules.

    Note that the names of the keyword arguments you want to dump must not begin
    with ``dumpopt_`` since this prefix is used internally to differentiate
    options over values to dump.

    Also, the introspection code won't behave as expected if you make recursive
    calls to this function.

    Options can be passed as keyword arguments to tweak behavior and output
    format:

    * ``dumpopt_stream``:
      May you wish to print() the result directly, you can pass a stream object
      (e.g.: ``sys.stdout``) through this option, that will be given to
      ``print()``'s ``file`` keyword argument.
      You can also specify None in case you just want the output string to be
      returned without further ado.
    * ``dumpopt_forcename``:
      A boolean value to indicate wether you want every dumped value to be
      prepended by its name (i.e.: its name or its type).
      If ``False``, only non-literal values will be named.
    * ``dumpopt_pformat``:
      The dictionary of keyword arguments to pass to ``pprint.pformat()``
    * ``dumpopt_srcinfo``:
      Specify a false value (``None``, ``False``, zero) to skip caller's info.
      Specify ``1`` to output caller's line number only.
      Specify ``2`` to output caller's file name and line number.
      Specify ``3`` or greater to output caller's file path and line number.

    Example:
        ``dbg_dump(my_var, None, True, 123, "Bar", (4, 5, 6), fcall(), hello="world")``

    Result:

    ::
    DUMP(202):
        my_var: 'Foo'
        None: None
        Bool: True
        Num: 123
        Str: 'Bar'
        Tuple: (4, 5, 6)
        fcall(): "Function's Result"
        hello: 'world'
    """
    try:
        def _find_caller_node(root_node, func_name, last_lineno):
            # find caller's node by walking down the ast, searching for an
            # ast.Call object named func_name of which the last source line is
            # last_lineno
            found_node = None
            lineno = 0
            def _luke_astwalker(parent):
                nonlocal found_node
                nonlocal lineno
                for child in ast.iter_child_nodes(parent):
                    # break if we passed the last line
                    if hasattr(child, "lineno") and child.lineno:
                        lineno = child.lineno
                    if lineno > last_lineno:
                        break
                    # is it our candidate?
                    if (isinstance(child, ast.Name)
                            and isinstance(parent, ast.Call)
                            and child.id == func_name):
                        found_node = parent
                        break
                    _luke_astwalker(child)
            _luke_astwalker(root_node)
            return found_node

        frame = inspect.currentframe()
        backf = frame.f_back
        this_func_name = frame.f_code.co_name
        #this_func = backf.f_locals.get(
        #    this_func_name, backf.f_globals.get(this_func_name))

        # get the source code of caller's module
        # note that we have to reload the entire module file since the
        # inspect.getsource() function doesn't work in some cases (i.e.:
        # returned source content was incomplete... Why?!).
        # --> is inspect.getsource broken???
        #     source = inspect.getsource(backf.f_code)
        #source = inspect.getsource(backf.f_code)
        with open(backf.f_code.co_filename, "r") as f:
            source = f.read()

        # get the ast node of caller's module
        # we don't need to use ast.increment_lineno() since we've loaded the
        # whole module
        ast_root = ast.parse(source, backf.f_code.co_filename)
        #ast.increment_lineno(ast_root, backf.f_code.co_firstlineno - 1)

        # find caller's ast node
        caller_node = _find_caller_node(ast_root, this_func_name, backf.f_lineno)
        if not caller_node:
            raise Exception("caller's AST node not found")

        # keep some useful info for later
        src_info = {
            'file': backf.f_code.co_filename,
            'name': (
                backf.f_code.co_filename.replace("\\", "/").rpartition("/")[2]),
            'lineno': caller_node.lineno}

        # if caller's node has been found, we now have the AST of our parameters
        args_names = []
        for arg_node in caller_node.args:
            if isinstance(arg_node, ast.Name):
                args_names.append(arg_node.id)
            elif isinstance(arg_node, ast.Attribute):
                if hasattr(arg_node, "value") and hasattr(arg_node.value, "id"):
                    args_names.append(arg_node.value.id + "." + arg_node.attr)
                else:
                    args_names.append(arg_node.attr)
            elif isinstance(arg_node, ast.Subscript):
                args_names.append(arg_node.value.id + "[]")
            elif (isinstance(arg_node, ast.Call)
                    and hasattr(arg_node, "func")
                    and hasattr(arg_node.func, "id")):
                args_names.append(arg_node.func.id + "()")
            elif dumpopt_forcename:
                if (isinstance(arg_node, ast.NameConstant)
                        and arg_node.value is None):
                    args_names.append("None")
                elif (isinstance(arg_node, ast.NameConstant)
                        and arg_node.value in (False, True)):
                    args_names.append("Bool")
                else:
                    args_names.append(arg_node.__class__.__name__)
            else:
                args_names.append(None)
    except:
        #import traceback
        #traceback.print_exc()
        src_info = None
        args_names = [None] * len(args)

    args_count = len(args) + len(kwargs)

    output = ""
    if dumpopt_srcinfo:
        if not src_info:
            output += "DUMP(<unknown>):"
        else:
            if dumpopt_srcinfo <= 1:
                fmt = "DUMP({2}):"
            elif dumpopt_srcinfo == 2:
                fmt = "{1}({2}):"
            else:
                fmt = "{0}({2}):"
            output += fmt.format(
                        src_info['file'], src_info['name'], src_info['lineno'])
        output += "\n" if args_count > 1 else " "
    else:
        src_info = None

    for name, obj in zip(
            args_names + list(kwargs.keys()),
            list(args) + list(kwargs.values())):
        if name and name.startswith("dumpopt_"):
            continue
        if dumpopt_srcinfo and args_count > 1:
            output += "  "
        if name:
            output += name + ": "
        output += pprint.pformat(obj, **dumpopt_pformat) + "\n"

    if dumpopt_stream:
        print(output, end="", file=dumpopt_stream)
        return None # explicit is better than implicit
    else:
        return output.rstrip()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    def fcall():
        return "Function's Result"
    my_var = "Foo"
    dbg_dump(my_var)
    dbg_dump(
        my_var, None, True, 123, "Bar", (4, 5, 6), fcall(),
        dbg_dump(1, dumpopt_stream=None), hello="world")