On Thursday 15 April 2004 18:36, Angus Leeming wrote:
>
> Yes, but it would be more elegant still if I could save the stream
> rather than convert it to a list. Is that possible?
Notice that you can get information easily from inside a python
interpreter:
* import sys
* we know that sys.stdout is a file, ask which methods are available
for it,
>>>dir(sys.stdout)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__',
'__init__', '__iter__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__repr__',
'__setattr__', '__str__', 'close', 'closed', 'fileno', 'flush',
'isatty', 'mode', 'name', 'read', 'readinto', 'readline', 'readlines',
'seek', 'softspace', 'tell', 'truncate', 'write', 'writelines',
'xreadlines']
* So the likely candidate will be in the read family, to have the basic
information for each
>>> help(sys.stdout.read)
This is quite handy. As another example to know which methods a list
has it is simple:
>>> dir([])
The same for a string:
>>> dir("")
You get the feeling. :-)
--
José Abílio
LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)
