How Do I Perform Introspection on an Object in Python 2.x?

Question

I\'m using Python 2.x and I have an object I\'m summoning from the aether; the documentation on it is not particularly clear. I would like to be able to get a list of prope

Answer 1

How about something like:

>>> o=object()
>>> [(a,type(o.__getattribute__(a))) for a in dir(o)]
[('__class__', ), ('__delattr__', ), 
('__doc__', ), ('__format__', ),
('__getattribute__', ), ('__hash__', ),
('__init__', ), 
('__new__', ),
('__reduce__', ),
('__reduce_ex__', ),
('__repr__', ), ('__setattr__', ),
('__sizeof__', ),
('__str__', ),
('__subclasshook__', )]
>>> 

A more structured method will be to use the inspect module:

The inspect module provides several useful functions to help get information about live objects such as modules, classes, methods, functions, tracebacks, frame objects, and code objects. For example, it can help you examine the contents of a class, retrieve the source code of a method, extract and format the argument list for a function, or get all the information you need to display a detailed traceback.