How do I look inside a Python object?

Question

I\'m starting to code in various projects using Python (including Django web development and Panda3D game development).

To help me understand what\'s going on, I wo

Answer 1

I'm surprised no one's mentioned help yet!

In [1]: def foo():
   ...:     "foo!"
   ...:

In [2]: help(foo)
Help on function foo in module __main__:

foo()
    foo!

Help lets you read the docstring and get an idea of what attributes a class might have, which is pretty helpful.