object data member dumper?

[tom arnall]

Steve Holden wrote:

> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>> tom arnall a écrit :
>> 
>>>does anyone know of a utility to do a recursive dump of object data
>>>members?
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> What are "object data members" ? (hint: in Python, everything is an
>> object - even functions and methods).
>> 
>> What is your real use case ?
> 
> Basically it sounds like the OP wants to see the attribute values for an
> object (and those objects' attribute values, ...). Presumably the
> recursive descent could be stopped at the built-in types.

Yes, exactly. But what is 'OP'?

> 
> I'm not familiar with any such thing. 

I'm amazed that there is no way to easily look at the fundamental data
structures of a python program. I'm new to python - is there something I
don't know about the territory in this regard?

>The code of the standard library's
> pprint module might be a good place to start 

I played around with this but it seems more targetted to looking at python
objects as opposed to user-defined.

>(and the suggested
> functionality might make a nice addition if we could work out exactly
> what the requirement was).

I would be glad if people would comment on my example as a step in this
direction.

tom arnall
north spit, ca
usa


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