Re: question about introspection using inspect module

2005-07-07 Thread Mike Meyer
Benjamin Rutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what I am actually trying to do is to build a database of Python > modules. so then later, I can write a tool in my favorite editor > (Emacs) to invoke some forms of completion against this database > (e.g. os.remov or socket. to see a list of all socket

Re: question about introspection using inspect module

2005-07-07 Thread Fernando Perez
Benjamin Rutt wrote: > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I certainly don't want to discourage you from learning about python >> introspection, it's one of the most fun aspects of the language. But just >> as an FYI, the pydoc system already does much of what you have in mind, at >>

Re: question about introspection using inspect module

2005-07-07 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I certainly don't want to discourage you from learning about python > introspection, it's one of the most fun aspects of the language. But just as > an FYI, the pydoc system already does much of what you have in mind, at least > if I'm reading your des

Re: question about introspection using inspect module

2005-07-07 Thread Fernando Perez
Benjamin Rutt wrote: > I'm trying to learn about introspection in Python. my ultimate goal > is to be able to build a module "text database" of all modules that > are in the sys.path, by discovering all candidate modules (I've > already done that), importing all of them, and then introspecting on

question about introspection using inspect module

2005-07-07 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I'm trying to learn about introspection in Python. my ultimate goal is to be able to build a module "text database" of all modules that are in the sys.path, by discovering all candidate modules (I've already done that), importing all of them, and then introspecting on each module to discover its f