A human-readable alternative to dir
Project description
An alternative to Python’s dir function. Easy to type; easy to read! For humans only.
Requirements: Python 2.4+ or 3.0
License: BSD (see the LICENSE file)
Contributions are welcome. See the CHANGELOG and AUTHORS files.
Install
To install see, run:
$ pip install --upgrade see
Alternatively, to install from source:
$ python setup.py install
Usage
see is designed for the interactive Python interpreter. Import the see function like so:
>>> from see import see
Call see() without arguments to see all objects in the global scope.
>>> foo = 'bar' >>> see() foo see()
Call see(an_object) to see what you can do with an_object.
>>> number = 1 >>> see(number) + - * / // % ** << >> & ^ | +obj -obj ~ < <= == != > >= abs() bool() divmod() float() hash() help() hex() int() long() oct() repr() str() .bit_length() .conjugate() .denominator .imag .numerator .real
Startup
You can use a Python startup file to ensure that see is available every time you run Python. The following example uses a startup file named .pythonrc.py in the user’s home directory:
Create a startup file, if one does not already exist:
touch ~/.pythonrc.py
Open the startup file in your preferred Python editor and add the following line:
from see import see
Set the following environment variable (e.g. in ~/.bashrc for Bash):
export PYTHONSTARTUP="$HOME/.pythonrc.py"
Now you can use see immediately after running python, without having to manually import it.
Startup for iPython
For iPython users, importing see by default requires a little more work.
Create a file named ipy_profile_see.py in your ~/.ipython directory, and add the following lines:
from IPython import ipapi def main(): ip = ipapi.get() ip.ex('from see import see') main()
From here, you have two options:
Launch iPython with the command: ipython -profile see
Open ~/.ipython/ipy_user_conf.py and add the following line inside the main() function:
import ipy_profile_see
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