examining python objects

[rurpy at yahoo.com]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> rurpy at yahoo.com a écrit :
> > Is there a function/class/module/whatever I can use to
> > look at objects?  I want something that will print the object's
> > value (if any) in pretty-printed form, and list all it's attributes
> > and their values.  And do all that recursively.
> > I want to be able to find out everything about an object that
> > Python can introspectively find out.
>
> Then check the inspect module

I want a callable, ready-to-use class or function.
Inspect provides soime funtions that would be useful for wrinting
such a class or function, but does not provide one.

I seems that nobody who has written or used such a tool reads
this group, or feels like responding.

FWIW, (for anyone looking for something similar in the future)
I found http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/137951
which will format and print an object's attributes.  By combining that
and pprint in the Python distrib, I think can coble up what I am
looking
for.

Still, it is discouraging that such a basic thing is not provided with
python, or at lleast easily available in some library.