Quoth Rominsky <john.romin...@gmail.com>: > vars seems to give an identical response as locals and globals, at > least in my test name space. All three are new commands for me. I
Without arguments vars() returns the same thing as locals(). > like the idea of adopting either vars or locals instead of dir as it > sets up the value for me to use. I will play with them both a little > more and read up on them to learn there uses and limitations. The key > step for me is still to be able to automatically query the key names > from vars or locals for what type the variable is. In my previous > post I discussed using eval and the string in the key name such as > > eval('type(%s)'%vars().keys()[0]) >>> eval('type(%s)'%vars().keys()[0]) <type 'module'> >>> vars().keys()[0] '__builtins__' >>> vars().values()[0] <module '__builtin__' (built-in)> >>> type(vars().values()[0]) <type 'module'> >>> for name, obj in vars().items(): ... print "%s (%s)" % (name, type(obj)) ... __builtins__ (<type 'module'>) __name__ (<type 'str'>) __doc__ (<type 'NoneType'>) __package__ (<type 'NoneType'>) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list