# encoding: utf-8 """A fancy version of Python's builtin :func:`dir` function. """ # Copyright (c) IPython Development Team. # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License. import inspect import types def safe_hasattr(obj, attr): """In recent versions of Python, hasattr() only catches AttributeError. This catches all errors. """ try: getattr(obj, attr) return True except: return False def dir2(obj): """dir2(obj) -> list of strings Extended version of the Python builtin dir(), which does a few extra checks. This version is guaranteed to return only a list of true strings, whereas dir() returns anything that objects inject into themselves, even if they are later not really valid for attribute access (many extension libraries have such bugs). """ # Start building the attribute list via dir(), and then complete it # with a few extra special-purpose calls. try: words = set(dir(obj)) except Exception: # TypeError: dir(obj) does not return a list words = set() if safe_hasattr(obj, "__class__"): words |= set(dir(obj.__class__)) # filter out non-string attributes which may be stuffed by dir() calls # and poor coding in third-party modules words = [w for w in words if isinstance(w, str)] return sorted(words) def get_real_method(obj, name): """Like getattr, but with a few extra sanity checks: - If obj is a class, ignore everything except class methods - Check if obj is a proxy that claims to have all attributes - Catch attribute access failing with any exception - Check that the attribute is a callable object Returns the method or None. """ try: canary = getattr(obj, "_ipython_canary_method_should_not_exist_", None) except Exception: return None if canary is not None: # It claimed to have an attribute it should never have return None try: m = getattr(obj, name, None) except Exception: return None if inspect.isclass(obj) and not isinstance(m, types.MethodType): return None if callable(m): return m return None