Symbol Table in Python

Question

How can we see the Symbol-Table of a python source code?

I mean, Python makes a symbol table for each program before actually running it. So my question is how can I

Answer 1

You will likely enjoy Eli Bendersky's write up on the topic here

In CPython, you have the symtable module available to you.

In part 2, Eli describes a method which walks the symbol table that is incredibly helpful:

def describe_symtable(st, recursive=True, indent=0):
    def print_d(s, *args):
        prefix = ' ' * indent
        print(prefix + s, *args)

    assert isinstance(st, symtable.SymbolTable)
    print_d('Symtable: type=%s, id=%s, name=%s' % (
                st.get_type(), st.get_id(), st.get_name()))
    print_d('  nested:', st.is_nested())
    print_d('  has children:', st.has_children())
    print_d('  identifiers:', list(st.get_identifiers()))

    if recursive:
        for child_st in st.get_children():
            describe_symtable(child_st, recursive, indent + 5)