On 14/06/2018 10:27, Steve Barnes wrote:
Currently when working with interactive sessions using the dir() or
dir(module) built in is incredibly useful for exploring what
functionality is available in a module. (Especially the regrettable
libraries or modules that add really valuable functionality but have no
or limited docstrings).
However I often find that when a module adds a lot of functions I need
to filter those entries to be able to find the one that I need, e.g.:
>>> import mpmath
>>> dir(mpmath) # This produces 390+ lines of output but
>>> for name in dir(mpmath):
.. if 'sin' in name:
.. print(name) # gives me a mere 13 to consider as candidates
What I would really like to do is:
>>> dir(mpmath.*sin*)
I have also hit this use case. But it never seemed like much of a
hardship to write
[ x for x in dir(SomeObject) if <some condition on x> ]
Rob Cliffe
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