How to fully disassemble Python source

Question

I have been playing with the dis library to disassemble some Python source code, but I see that this does not recurse into functions or classes:

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Answer 1

Import the file as a module and call dis.dis() on that module.

import dis
import test

dis.dis(test)

You can also do this from the command-line:

python -m dis test.py

Quoting from the documentation for dis.dis:

For a module, it disassembles all functions.

Edit: As of python 3.7, dis.dis is recursive.