easy way to dump a class instance?

[bruno at modulix]

Mark Harrison wrote:
> Is there a way to automatically print all the instance
> data in a class?  This is for debugging, I would like
> to do something like dump(self) to snapshot the state
> of the object.

def dump(obj):
  buf = ['%r %s :' % (obj, str(obj)]
  for name in dir(obj):
    attr = getattr(obj, name)
    if not callable(attr):
      buf.append["- %s : %s" % (name, str(attr))]
  return '\n'.join(buf)

Not tested...

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bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"