See(), an alternative to Python's dir()

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If you like this, you'll love ipython.

Ipython makes introspection 3.14 times more fun.

ipython rocks with the tab completion, is that what you mean? This is better than ipython's ? and ??.

I use

import readline, rlcompleter; readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

(executed at PYTHONSTARTUP) for tab completion.

Thankyou for this, added to my portable remote node setup.

There's also python print_r http://wiki.github.com/marcbelmont/python-print_r

Installed, I like it. I do a lot of one-off Python with unfamiliar libs and that's just the thing.

Mapped it to der() ... because that just feels better, I guess.

"Help us out here, Computer. This just will not cut it. Blimey!"

I enjoyed their documentation style.

ehh, this is just (questionable) formatting. After you use python for a while, the __methods__ should become pretty common-sensical (and seeing the actual __name__ is more useful if you're trying to reimplement protocols common objects support). That and not being able to manipulate the output of see() makes it pretty useless.

I personally like doing things like [f for f in dir(o) if 'foo' in f] etc.

This was only intended as an alternative, not a replacement -- dir() is still extremely useful. see() was made for quickly inspecting objects interactively, hence "for humans only".

Nice idea. I decided I'd rather see it laid out in columns like 'ls' does, and with the attribute names unchanged. Here's the result: http://github.com/darius/columnize/blob/69d2b1c084ab3fc7c72d...

In case someone else is an Arch Linux user and wants to use this, I uploaded a pkgbuild to AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24014

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