Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> lina wrote:
>
>> one example:
>>
>> def info(object, spacing=10, collapse=1):
>> """Print methods and docs strings.
>>
>> Take modules, class, list, dictionary, or strong."""
>> methodList = [e for e in dir(object) if callable(getattr(object, e))]
>> processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: " ".join(s.split())) or (lambda
>> s: s) print "\n".join(["%s %s" %
>> (method.ljust(spacing),
>> processFunc(str(getattr(object, method).__doc__)))
>> for method in methodList])
>
>
> In this example, "collapse" is used as the name of an argument which
> takes a true/false flag. If collapse is true, runs of whitespace is
> collapsed into a single space:
>
> "hello world" => "hello world"
>
> The above function would be much easier to understand if it was written
> like this:
>
> def info(object, spacing=10, collapse=1):
> """Print methods and docs strings.
>
> Take modules, class, list, dictionary, or string.
> """
> method_names = []
> doc_strings = []
> for name in dir(object):
> attribute = getattr(object, name)
> if callable(attribute):
> method_names.append(name.ljust(spacing))
> doc_strings.append(str(attribute.__doc__))
> if collapse:
> doc_strings = [" ".join(doc.split()) for doc in doc_strings]
> parts = ["%s %s" % (n, d) for n,d in zip(method_names, doc_strings)]
> print "\n".join(parts)
>
>
>
> Much longer, but easier to follow for a beginner.
Or even
def info(object, spacing=10, collapse=True):
for name in dir(object):
attribute = getattr(object, name)
if callable(attribute):
doc = str(attribute.__doc__)
if collapse:
doc = " ".join(doc.split())
print name.ljust(spacing), doc
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