A tool for recursively exploring arbitrary python objects.
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pynaunt allows you to deeply explore and introspect arbitrary python objects.
As an example, we explore the os module just a bit:
>>> from pynaut import Container >>> import os >>> obj = Container(os) >>> len(obj.children) 220 >>> pairs = obj.grep_attr_names('wait') >>> len(pairs) 12 >>> pairs [('wait', <Container(<built-in function wait>) >), ('wait4', <Container(<built-in function wait4>) >), ('wait3', <Container(<built-in function wait3>) >), ('wait', <Container(<built-in function wait>) >), ('wait4', <Container(<built-in function wait4>) >), ('wait3', <Container(<built-in function wait3>) >), ('waitpid', <Container(<built-in function waitpid>) >), ('wait', <Container(<built-in function wait>) >), ('wait4', <Container(<built-in function wait4>) >), ('wait3', <Container(<built-in function wait3>) >), ('waitpid', <Container(<built-in function waitpid>) >), ('waitpid', <Container(<built-in function waitpid>)>)] >>> obj = obj.children['path'] >>> obj = obj.children['os'] >>> list(obj.ancestry) [<Container(<module 'posixpath' from '/Users/miburr/virtualenv/current/lib/python2.7/posixpath.pyc'>) >, <Container(<module 'os' from '/Users/miburr/virtualenv/current/lib/python2.7/os.pyc'>) >] >>>
Additionally, there is support for searching an entire object tree for a (name, attribute) pair that meets an arbitrary condition.
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