Steve Holden wrote: > tom arnall wrote: >> Steve Holden wrote: >> >> >>>Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >>> >>>>tom arnall a écrit : >>>> >>>> >>>>>does anyone know of a utility to do a recursive dump of object data >>>>>members? >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>What are "object data members" ? (hint: in Python, everything is an >>>>object - even functions and methods). >>>> >>>>What is your real use case ? >>> >>>Basically it sounds like the OP wants to see the attribute values for an >>>object (and those objects' attribute values, ...). Presumably the >>>recursive descent could be stopped at the built-in types. >> >> >> Yes, exactly. But what is 'OP'? >> > "original poster" (you) >> >>>I'm not familiar with any such thing. >> >> >> I'm amazed that there is no way to easily look at the fundamental data >> structures of a python program. I'm new to python - is there something I >> don't know about the territory in this regard? >> > Well, new enough to be unaware that Python normally doesn't need such > drastic measures for debugging. When you are building complex data > structures such a form of output could get big really quickly. I've > never come across anything like it in any other language that I have used.
never come across the complexity of data structures or across an object displayer? > > The most that's usually required is a __repr__() method that dumps the > values of necessary data attributes. what about __dict__? >> >>>The code of the standard library's >>>pprint module might be a good place to start >> >> >> I played around with this but it seems more targetted to looking at >> python objects as opposed to user-defined. >> > It is, but it could be used as a basis for something more to your liking. >> >>>(and the suggested >>>functionality might make a nice addition if we could work out exactly >>>what the requirement was). >> >> >> I would be glad if people would comment on my example as a step in this >> direction. >> > I'd suggest you instead consider a mixin object that will add recursive > data dump functionality to any such classes you require. have googled a fair amount on 'mixin' but still stumped on it. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
