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Remove mention of Traits (removed in e1ced0b3)
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1 1 # encoding: utf-8
2 2 """A fancy version of Python's builtin :func:`dir` function.
3 3 """
4 4
5 5 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6 6 # Copyright (C) 2008-2011 The IPython Development Team
7 7 #
8 8 # Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in
9 9 # the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
10 10 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
11 11
12 12 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
13 13 # Imports
14 14 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
15 15 from .py3compat import string_types
16 16
17 17 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
18 18 # Code
19 19 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
20 20
21 21
22 22 def safe_hasattr(obj, attr):
23 23 """In recent versions of Python, hasattr() only catches AttributeError.
24 24 This catches all errors.
25 25 """
26 26 try:
27 27 getattr(obj, attr)
28 28 return True
29 29 except:
30 30 return False
31 31
32 32
33 33 def dir2(obj):
34 34 """dir2(obj) -> list of strings
35 35
36 36 Extended version of the Python builtin dir(), which does a few extra
37 checks, and handles Traits objects, which can confuse dir().
37 checks.
38 38
39 39 This version is guaranteed to return only a list of true strings, whereas
40 40 dir() returns anything that objects inject into themselves, even if they
41 41 are later not really valid for attribute access (many extension libraries
42 42 have such bugs).
43 43 """
44 44
45 45 # Start building the attribute list via dir(), and then complete it
46 46 # with a few extra special-purpose calls.
47 47
48 48 try:
49 49 words = set(dir(obj))
50 50 except Exception:
51 51 # TypeError: dir(obj) does not return a list
52 52 words = set()
53 53
54 54 # filter out non-string attributes which may be stuffed by dir() calls
55 55 # and poor coding in third-party modules
56 56
57 57 words = [w for w in words if isinstance(w, string_types)]
58 58 return sorted(words)
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