[summerofcode] my project idea for soc

[Skip Montanaro]

    Rahul> We can make better use of dynamic nature of python as well as the
    Rahul> availability of tkinter in standard python distribution for a
    Rahul> visual object inspector. For example during debugging it will be
    Rahul> helpful to view an object.

    Rahul> Intended features:

    Rahul> 1.The view of an object must display the class , attributes and
    Rahul> documentation.
    ...

FYI, check out the _PyObject_Dump and _PyGC_Dump APIs, and the corresponding
usage in Misc/gdbinit:

    # Prints a representation of the object to stderr, along with the
    # number of reference counts it current has and the hex address the
    # object is allocated at.  The argument must be a PyObject*
    define pyo
    print _PyObject_Dump($arg0)
    end

    # Prints a representation of the object to stderr, along with the
    # number of reference counts it current has and the hex address the
    # object is allocated at.  The argument must be a PyGC_Head*
    define pyg
    print _PyGC_Dump($arg0)
    end

Extending them would probably be a good place to start.  It would be nice if
they could optionally display the attributes of an object as well.

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