On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:08 PM, <akleider at sonic.net> wrote: > >>>> s.dir() > <Result = exactly what I'm looking for!!!!!!!!> Surely you mean dir(s). Maybe you're thinking of the __dir__ special method you can add to a class to override the default behavior. You can also dir(str), or call help(str) to page through all of the doc strings.