extracting a function/class/method from code

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Are you looking for inspect.getsource() ?

almost. if the code i want to extract from can be imported as a module, this could work. for stdin i'd have to copy it to a file, first, unless there is a way to import from stdin or a list of str or a big str.

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For what purpose?

to extract source code of a function or class to the end of that function or class, comiing from a file or stdin. this is to find the end of that function or class. maybe parsing indentation (after disposing of comments) would be the easy way.