[Python-Dev] inspect() and dir()

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Oct 8 23:29:02 CEST 2013


Greetings,

Currently, inspect() is dependent on dir().

Now that we can override what dir() returns on a class by class basis, we are seeing the side-effect of (possibly) 
incomplete inspect results, with also leads to (possibly) incomplete help().

I would think we want inspect to be more thorough, and return whatever it finds on the object, as well as whatever an 
abbreviated dir() might return.

Thoughts?

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~Ethan~


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