list active variables

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Apr 30 19:27:23 EDT 2009


In article <pan.2009.04.30.00.13.01 at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au>,
Steven D'Aprano  <steven at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:25:46 -0700, Iamanalien wrote:
>> 
>> how can i list all the variables that i am using?
>
>You can't.
>
>What you can do though is list all the available names that Python knows 
>about, whether you are using them or not, by using the dir() or vars() 
>functions.

You can also get a complete list of Python container objects with
gc.get_objects(); however, that does not show you strings and ints that
aren't in container objects.  Still, that gets you most of it.
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