[Tutor] ?????

[Christian Witts]

prasad rao wrote:
> hello
>       I get a problem while trying to print non callable
> items in dir(module).May be as the items are strings.
>  
>  
>
> for x in dir(sys):
> ?? if sys.x is callable:
> ????  print sys.x()
> ?? else:print sys.x
>
>  
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#10>", line 2, in <module>
>     if sys.x is callable:
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'x'
>
>  
>
> Some one please tell me How  can I do that?
>
> Prasad
>
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What you should be doing is rather

for attrib in dir(sys):
    if callable('sys.%s' % attrib):
        print 'Callable: sys.%s' % attrib
    else:
        print 'Not Callable: sys.%s' % attrib

Any particular reason why you need to be able to do this, just wondering 
about the use case for such automation ?

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Kind Regards,
Christian Witts