[Tutor] all methods in a module

[Bob Gailer]

At 04:46 AM 5/27/2005, Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:

>hello
>
> >>> import random
> >>> print random.setstate.__doc__
>Restore internal state from object returned by getstate().
>
>
>my question is
>" how can i loop through all the methods in a module
>   and print out their '__doc__' content ?
>
> >>> for d in dir( random ):
>         print random.???d???.__doc__

The prior responses use dir(), requiring then the use of eval() to get the 
object.
You can get the name and object directly from random.__dict__. The 
following comprehension seems to handle all the stuff in random's dict:

methods = [name, str(object.__doc__)
                   for name, object in random.__dict__.iteritems()
                   if callable(object) and object.__doc__]

Then you can iterate over methods and format/print as desired.

Bob Gailer
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