dir(..) vs. PyList_GetItem

[Mark Pope]

Rollocks.

Yes, I understand now. Thanks very much, you've saved me from yet more cloud
gazing...

mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ewing [mailto:greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz]
> Sent: 20 April 2000 3:22 AM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: dir(..) vs. PyList_GetItem
> 
> 
> Mark Pope wrote:
> > 
> > The code I posted was just a snippet.
> > I have already successfully imported the module. I now need 
> to get a list of
> > the functions it exposes.
> 
> Are you *sure* you have imported the module properly?
> Because the result you posted looked an awful lot like
> you were looking at an empty module. Note that even if
> you imported the module previously, PyModule_New will
> *still* create a new module object. 
> 
> Can you post the code you actually ran?
> 
> If you've got the right module object, I can't imagine
> why looking at the keys of the module dict wouldn't
> work -- particularly since it works in Python, too:
> 
> >>> import string
> >>> dir(string)
> ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '_idmap', 
> '_idmapL',
> '_lower', '_re', '_safe_env', '_swapcase', '_upper', 'atof',
> 'atof_error', 'atoi', 'atoi_error', 'atol', 'atol_error', 
> 'capitalize',
> 'capwords', 'center', 'count', 'digits', 'expandtabs', 'find',
> 'hexdigits', 'index', 'index_error', 'join', 'joinfields', 'letters',
> 'ljust', 'lower', 'lowercase', 'lstrip', 'maketrans', 'octdigits',
> 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rstrip', 'split', 
> 'splitfields',
> 'strip', 'swapcase', 'translate', 'upper', 'uppercase', 'whitespace',
> 'zfill']
> >>> string.__dict__.keys()
> ['_safe_env', '_idmap', '_swapcase', 'capitalize', 'atoi_error',
> 'octdigits', 'rfind', 'index', 'expandtabs', 'center', 
> 'join', 'lower',
> 'digits', 'atof', '__name__', 'hexdigits', 'atol', 'zfill', 'count',
> 'atoi', 'atof_error', '_re', 'swapcase', '__file__', '__builtins__',
> 'joinfields', 'lowercase', '__doc__', 'translate', 'rstrip', 'split',
> 'splitfields', '_lower', 'atol_error', 'rindex', 'whitespace',
> '_idmapL', '_upper', 'rjust', 'find', 'ljust', 'strip', 'index_error',
> 'capwords', 'replace', 'maketrans', 'uppercase', 'lstrip', 'letters',
> 'upper']
> >>>
> 
> The only difference seems to be that dir() sorts the
> list.
> 
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