Comments on: Python dir() is my fav debugging thing ever

By: Mark Peloquin

Mark Peloquin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:25:30 +0000

I see nobody’s ever heard of pydoc. Much like perldoc, you can look up documentation on any module, class, function, method, etc from the CLI.

$ pydoc os
$ pydoc os.path
$ pydoc os.path.join

By: Sean F

Sean F — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:08:08 +0000

vim omni-completion FTW

By: Skytak

Skytak — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:31:39 +0000

Meh, if you want it short in PHP, just do print_r(glob(”module/*”));

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:13:31 +0000

hi from 4chan!

By: Isaac

Isaac — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:49:16 +0000

> I see why people like Python. In PHP to list
> directory contents you +just+ do:

> $dir = dir(”module”);
> while(($file = $dir->read()) !== false)
> echo $file;
> $dir->close();

dir() in python, according to the post, doesn’t do that at all. It lists the contents of an *object*, which means whoever named dir() in python failed.

The equivalent in php is as easy as in python.

print_r($object)

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:58:06 +0000

Of course by posting this as an image it’s not indexable by Google…

By: Tyler Menezes

Tyler Menezes — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:27:02 +0000

I see why people like Python. In PHP to list directory contents you +just+ do:

$dir = dir(”module”);
while(($file = $dir->read()) !== false)
echo $file;
$dir->close();

By: wiz

wiz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:32:32 +0000

import pdb; pdb.set_trace() — very povurful toy.

By: Ben Walton

Ben Walton — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:43:55 +0000

That was supposed to be
obj.(tab)(tab)

By: Ben Walton

Ben Walton — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:42:09 +0000

I’ve just always used…
obj.
in the console.