On Sunday, July 6, 2014 9:34:44 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote: > * You can print dict(foo), which just prints out the attributes the > object has.
Looks like a typo there. I think you probably meant to say "dir(foo)" ============================================================ INTERACTIVE SESSION: Python 2.x ============================================================ py> l = range(5) py> l [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] py> dict(l) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> dict(l) TypeError: cannot convert dictionary update sequence element #0 to a sequence py> dir(l) ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__delslice__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort'] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list