On Dec 17, 10:59 am, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Rominsky schrieb: > > > 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) > > for name, obj in vars().iteritems(): > print name, obj > > Christian
I do have some understanding of the pythonic methodology of programming, though by far I still don't consider myself an expert. The problem at hand is that I am coming from a matlab world and trying to drag my coworkers with me. I have gotten a lot of them excited about using python for this work, but the biggest gripe everytime is they want their matlab ide. I am trying to experiment with making similar pieces of the ide, in particular I am working on the workspace window which lists all the current variables in the namespace, along with their type, size, value, etc.... I am trying to create a python equivalent. I can get dir to list all the variables names in a list of strings, but I am trying to get more info them. hence the desire to do a type command on them. I like the locals and globals commands, but I am still trying to get more info. I have started using the eval command with the strings, which is working, but I am curious if there is a better or more elegant way of getting the info. The eval example would be something like: a = 5 b = 2.0 c = 'c' lst = dir() for el in lst: print el + '\t' + str(eval('type(%s)'%el)) It works, now I am curious if there is a better way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list