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Python: Introspection function

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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.

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  1. def info(object, spacing=10, collapse=1):   
  2.     """Print methods and doc strings.
  3.  
  4.     Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string."""
  5.     methodList = [method for method in dir(object) if callable(getattr(object, method))]
  6.     processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: " ".join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)
  7.     print "\n".join(["%s %s" %
  8.                       (method.ljust(spacing),
  9.                        processFunc(str(getattr(object, method).__doc__)))
  10.                      for method in methodList])
  11.  
  12. if __name__ == "__main__":                 
  13.     print info.__doc__

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