[Tutor] How do I find information about a Python object.

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi,

Are you looking for the inspect module?
 
import inspect
help(inspect)
cls = str
inspect.classify_class_attrs(cls)

Cheers!!

Albert-Jan



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--- On Tue, 3/30/10, Mike Baker <mibaker88 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mike Baker <mibaker88 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Tutor] How do I find information about a Python object.
To: tutor at python.org
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 5:23 PM

Hi,
 
I've downloaded IDLE python for windows.  I've also downloaded Eclipse with the python addition. I have simple programs that will run on both IDLE and Eclipse. How do I get more information about a object/variable, such as proc in the example below.

 
For example, if I execute the following:
    >>> proc = subprocess.Popen(['C:\\Progra~1\\putty\\plink','Catt'],
                        shell=False)
          I can remote log into our Linux machine named 'Catt'.
 
 
How do I find a list of attributes for the object/variable proc?  I've tried subprocess.__doc__ and subprocess.Popen.__doc__.
 
Random Googling shows that there are things like process identification numbers available - such as proc.pid.  How do I find the other options?
 
Thanks,
 
Mike

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