Deep wrote: > I have been looking a bit and am stuck at this point. > > Given a string, how do i find what is the string bound to. > Let me give an example. > > def deep(): > print "Hello" > > now inspect.ismethod(deep) returns true. (As it should). > But if I am trying to make a list of all bound methods), i use > dir(), which is a list of strings. I get the string "deep" from this > list.
Look it up in the globals() dict: >>> def deep(): ... print 'Hello' ... >>> globals()['deep'] <function deep at 0x008ECF70> > How do I obtain the reference to the method it is bound to. > The same problem can be extended to attributes and classes. Use getattr() to inspect classes and instances: >>> class deeper: ... def deepest(self): ... print 'goodbye' ... >>> getattr(deeper, 'deepest') <unbound method deeper.deepest> >>> d=deeper() >>> getattr(d, 'deepest') <bound method deeper.deepest of <__main__.deeper instance at 0x00A41350>> Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
