On Dec 17, 5:16 pm, Rominsky <john.romin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to use dir to generate a list of methods, variables, etc. > I would like to be able to go through the list and seperate the > objects by type using the type() command, but the dir command returns > a list of strings. When I ask for the type of an element, the answer > is always string. How do I point at the variables themselves. A > quick example is: > > a = 5 > b = 2.0 > c = 'c' > > lst = dir() > > for el in lst: > print type(el) > > Right now I am understandably getting all types being output as > strings, how do i get the type of the actual objects returned from dir > ()?
The builtin functions "locals" and "globals" will both return a dictionary whose keys are the variable names and values are the items corresponding to those keys; >>> locals()['b'] 2.0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
