getting object instead of string from dir()

[André]

On Dec 17, 3:52 pm, Rominsky <john.romin... at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I do have some understanding of the pythonic methodology of
> programming, though by far I still don't consider myself an expert.
> The problem at hand is that I am coming from a matlab world and trying
> to drag my coworkers with me.  I have gotten a lot of them excited
> about using python for this work, but the biggest gripe everytime is
> they want their matlab ide.  I am trying to experiment with making
> similar pieces of the ide, in particular I am working on the workspace
> window which lists all the current variables in the namespace, along
> with their type, size, value, etc....  I am trying to create a python
> equivalent.  


You might want to have a look at
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/santoso/Software.WebLab.html

André