[Numpy-discussion] ndarray newbie question

[belinda thom]

Hello,

I wrote a "display obj" method for viewing instance data:

def dobj(obj) :
     """extended object viewer that displays arg"""
     print 'Class: ', obj.__class__.__name__, ' id:', id(obj)
     for k in obj.__dict__.keys() :
         print '  ', k, ': ', obj.__dict__[k], ' id:', id(obj.__dict__ 
[k])


and I'm wondering why it doesn't work on ndarrays:

 >>> m = numpy.zeros(3)
 >>> dobj(m)

complains because:

AttributeError: 'numpy.ndarray' object has no attribute '__dict__'

I am also fairly new to python, but would have thought all objects  
had dictionaries, especially when they are comprised of other things,  
e.g.

dir(m)

produces a slew of components, e.g.

tofile, ..., transpose, ..., view, etc.

Thanks for any insight.

--b