Comments on: Python, the learn-at-home language

By: Fernando Perez

Fernando Perez — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:49:17 +0000

@Uldis: yes, ‘?’ is an ipython goodie, amongst a bunch of others :) Try foo?? (two marks) for extra info.

By: Uldis

Uldis — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:02:20 +0000

@Fernando: wow, “?” rocks. it’s one of IPython goodies, isn’t it?

@Aral: you mentioned on Twitter that you like “inspect” (which I have not used yet). how / what are you using it for?

By: Aral

Aral — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:34:55 +0000

Hey Fernando,

Ooooh, I liiike! :) Doesn’t appear work in all situations (e.g., combined with lookup, etc.) but a very handy shortcut when peeking through the object hierarchy.

Thanks very much for sharing.

By: Fernando Perez

Fernando Perez — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:26:48 +0000

You may also try this one-liner in IPython:

os.*dir*?

A bit shorter :)

Cheers,

By: Aral

Aral — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:11:25 +0000

Oooh, of course, I still forget that strings are just lists of numbers (and, hey, I love my regular expressions) :)

Muchas dankes! :)

By: Mike Thompson

Mike Thompson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:58:14 +0000

You may be interested in this alternative one liner:

[item for item in dir(os) if "dir" in item]

Keep up the interesting work you’re doing with GAE