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at December 22, 2009 15:41 by magicrebirth
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def info(object, spacing=10, collapse=1):   
    """Print methods and doc strings.
    
    Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string."""
    methodList = [method for method in dir(object) if callable(getattr(object, method))]
    processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: " ".join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)
    print "\n".join(["%s %s" %
                      (method.ljust(spacing),
                       processFunc(str(getattr(object, method).__doc__)))
                     for method in methodList])

if __name__ == "__main__":                 
    print info.__doc__
Initial URL 
diveintopython-5.4/html/power_of_introspection/index.html
Initial Description 
The info function is designed to be used by you, the programmer, while working in the Python IDE. It takes any object that has functions or methods (like a module, which has functions, or a list, which has methods) and prints out the functions and their doc strings.
Initial Title 
Python: Introspection function
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