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

http://github.com/inky/see/tree/master

by ken • 17 years ago

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timf3• 17 years ago

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.

mjtokelly• 17 years ago

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

I enjoyed their documentation style.

illumen• 17 years ago

If you like this, you'll love ipython.

Ipython makes introspection 3.14 times more fun.

timf3• 17 years ago

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

juanpablo• 17 years ago

I use

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

(executed at PYTHONSTARTUP) for tab completion.

marcmarc• 17 years ago

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

mattj• 17 years ago

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.

inky• 17 years ago

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".

meqif• 17 years ago

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

abecedarius• 17 years ago

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...

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

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