inspect.getfile () vs inspect.getsourcefile()

Question

I was just going through the inspect module docs.

What exactly is the difference between:

inspect.getfile()

and

inspect.getsourcefile()

I get exactly the same file path (of the module) for both.

Answer 1

getfile():

Return the name of the (text or binary) file in which an object was defined. This will fail with a TypeError if the object is a built-in module, class, or function.

getfile() also returns pyc (compiled) files, where as getsourcefile() will only return source files.