A Selective-Pretty dir printing utility.
Project description
pdir: Selective & Pretty dir() printing utlity
dir() is a very useful utility function in python which returns a list of names comprising the attributes of the given object, and of attributes reachable from it. However, a lot many times all those names can be bugging. Say you are really interested in knowing only the useful methods a Python “list” offers. And you do not like the unreadable, unfiltered mess resulting from using “dir(list)”.
Then pdir should be very useful for you. I wrote this bit because something like this is very helpful to me, who forgets some of the important functions a namespace offers; and likes reading clean pretty stuff.
Quickstart
You can use import the pdir function from pdir after installing this package, and consider it as your new dir() friend.
An example:
>>> from pdir import pdir >>> from collections import list >>> pdir(list) ['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']
Now lets compare this with what dir() prints:
>>> dir(list) ['__add__', '__class__', ......................................................... .................................................................................. 'append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']
Some of the elements are substituted with dots (…) here.
Wasn’t the former clean and better?
Notes
pdir is essentially a wrapper around the existing dir function.
I will be trying to add interesting regular expressions support to further filter out pdir results.
Anyone who is interested in the code can see it ‘here’_ Its at its very rudimentary stage of development and may be unstable.
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