[issue47254] enhanced dir?

apostofes report at bugs.python.org
Thu Apr 7 18:21:22 EDT 2022


New submission from apostofes <aivainjr141 at gmail.com>:

current dir gives output like this,
```
from collection import OrderedDict
od = OrderedDict({'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3})
print(dir(od))
```
```
['__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__dict__',
 '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__',
 '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__',
 '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__',
 '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__',
 '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'clear', 'copy', 'fromkeys',
 'get', 'items', 'keys', 'move_to_end', 'pop', 'popitem', 'setdefault',
 'update', 'values']
```
but wouldn't it be better if the output was like this,
```

{'OrderedDict': {'__contains__', '__delitem__', '__dir__', '__eq__',
                  '__format__', '__ge__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__',
                  '__iter__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
                  '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__setitem__', '__sizeof__', '__subclasshook__',
                  'clear', 'copy', 'fromkeys', 'get', 'items', 'keys', 'move_to_end', 'pop',
                  'popitem', 'setdefault', 'update', 'values'},
'dict': {'__getattribute__', '__len__', '__new__'},
'object': {'__delattr__', '__setattr__', '__str__'}}
```
???

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messages: 416948
nosy: apostofes
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: enhanced dir?
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.11

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