What is a Python equivalent of PHP's var_dump()? [duplicate]

Answer 1

The closest thing to PHP's var_dump() is pprint() with the getmembers() function in the built-in inspect module:

from inspect import getmembers
from pprint import pprint
pprint(getmembers(yourObj))

Answer 2

I think the best equivalent to PHP's var_dump($foo, $bar) is combine print with vars:

print vars(foo),vars(bar)

Answer 3

I don't have PHP experience, but I have an understanding of the Python standard library.

For your purposes, Python has several methods:

logging module;

Object serialization module which is called pickle. You may write your own wrapper of the pickle module.

If your using var_dump for testing, Python has its own doctest and unittest modules. It's very simple and fast for design.

Answer 4

PHP's var_export() usually shows a serialized version of the object that can be exec()'d to re-create the object. The closest thing to that in Python is repr()

"For many types, this function makes an attempt to return a string that would yield an object with the same value when passed to eval() [...]"