Dumping an instance

[Peter Hansen]

gf gf wrote:
> If I want to dump (for debugging) an instance and all
> of it's member attributes, what's the simplest way?
> 
> print myInstance
> 
> just gives a pointer to its location in memory

Roughly speaking, as a starting point:

from pprint import pformat
def dump(obj):
     print repr(obj)
     for name in obj.__dict__:
         val = getattr(obj, name)
         print name, '=', pformat(val)

-Peter