How to list currently defined classes, methods etc

[Deep]

If i start a python shell. Is there a way to list the currently defined
classes, methods,
variables?

 

[Peter Hansen]

If i start a python shell. Is there a way to list the currently defined
classes, methods,
variables?

Does this work?

-Peter

 

[Deep]

yes that works.
but, it gives one list, which contains everything.
now about inferring types?

 

[Bengt Richter]

Does this work?

might be interesting for the OP too ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter

 

[Deep]

Awesome just what i was looking for
now sheepishly i shall RTFM

 

[Alex Martelli]

yes that works.
but, it gives one list, which contains everything.
now about inferring types?

You may want to look at module inspect in the standard library.


Alex

 

[Deep]

I have been looking a bit and am stuck at this point.

Given a string, how do i find what is the string bound to.
Let me give an example.

def deep():
print "Hello"

now inspect.ismethod(deep) returns true. (As it should).
But if I am trying to make a list of all bound methods), i use
dir(), which is a list of strings. I get the string "deep" from this
list.
How do I obtain the reference to the method it is bound to.
The same problem can be extended to attributes and classes.

 

[Colin J. Williams]

I have been looking a bit and am stuck at this point.

Given a string, how do i find what is the string bound to.
Let me give an example.

def deep():
print "Hello"

now inspect.ismethod(deep) returns true. (As it should).
But if I am trying to make a list of all bound methods), i use
dir(), which is a list of strings. I get the string "deep" from this
list.
How do I obtain the reference to the method it is bound to.
The same problem can be extended to attributes and classes.

A prettier way is to use epydoc:
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=epydoc&gwp=13

Colin W.

 

[Kent Johnson]

I have been looking a bit and am stuck at this point.

Given a string, how do i find what is the string bound to.
Let me give an example.

def deep():
print "Hello"

now inspect.ismethod(deep) returns true. (As it should).
But if I am trying to make a list of all bound methods), i use
dir(), which is a list of strings. I get the string "deep" from this
list.

Look it up in the globals() dict: ... print 'Hello'
...

>>> globals()['deep']

How do I obtain the reference to the method it is bound to.
The same problem can be extended to attributes and classes.

Use getattr() to inspect classes and instances: ... def deepest(self):
... print 'goodbye'
...<bound method deeper.deepest of <__main__.deeper instance at 0x00A41350>>

Kent