Re: [Jython-users] Finding methods in a python script

[Matej C. <mc...@re...>]

On 2008-03-13, 06:21 GMT, Heshan Suriyaarachchi wrote:
> Is there something like reflection in python which could help 
> me in this process. If someone can direct me to a code sample 
> , I will be grateful.

There is module inspect, but I haven't felt the need to use it so 
far, because

a) you can do dir(module) or dir(module.object) to get a list of 
   all available methods, properties, objects, etc.

   try

   dir()

   and

   import sys
   dir(sys)

   or

   f=file("somefilename")
   dir(f)

b) well written libraries have docstrings and then you can do
   
   print object.__doc__

   which should give you some information about the object.

And of course all pydocs are available with pydoc, which can be 
conveniently run as a webserver

pydoc -p 8888

makes a webserver on http://localhost:8888 with all available 
documentation.

Matěj