Quick Reference from module doc strings.

[Scott David Daniels]

Ron Adam wrote:
> Do you have any feature suggestions, additional information that could 
> go in, something that would extend the content in some way and make it 
> more useful?
> 
> As it stands now, it could be just a module, so you could...
> 
The style is still a sticking point for me -- too many evals (a nasty
lure for evil-doers).

Recall that sys.modules is a dictionary from module names to modules.

Any python object (including a module) will return attributes listed
in a dir(obj) with getattr(obj, attributename).  So, no evals are
needed in this program at all.

I also wonder if you've ever used maxlevel>1.  It seems you'd expand
to way too many names to be useful.

Finally, if you use StringIO (or cStringIO), most of your string
construction can be turned into prints in a way similar to:

     def printnames(namelist, dest=None):
         for name in sorted(namelist, key=str.lower):
             print >>dest, name

     from cStringIO import StringIO

     def textnames(namelist):
         hold = StringIO()
         printnames(namelist, hold)
         return hold.getvalue()

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org