Bob Gailer wrote:
>> my question is
>> " how can i loop through all the methods in a module
>> and print out their '__doc__' content ?
>>
>> >>> for d in dir( random ):
>> print random.???d???.__doc__
>
>
> The prior responses use dir(), requiring then the use of eval() to get
> the object.
eval() is not required, getattr() is a better solution as I showed in my
previous reply.
> You can get the name and object directly from random.__dict__. The
> following comprehension seems to handle all the stuff in random's dict:
>
> methods = [name, str(object.__doc__)
> for name, object in random.__dict__.iteritems()
> if callable(object) and object.__doc__]
For the general case it would be prudent to say
if callable(object) and hasattr(object, '__doc__') and object.__doc__
so a missing docstring doesn't terminate the loop.
Kent
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