kind_of? and is_a? are synonymous. instance_of? is different from the other two in that it only returns true if the object is an instance of that exact class, not a subclass. Example: “hello”.is_a? Object and “hello”.kind_of? Object return true because “hello” is a String and String is a subclass of Object. However “hello”.instance_of? Object returns … Read more
For many objects, you can use this code, replacing ‘object’ with the object you’re interested in: object_methods = [method_name for method_name in dir(object) if callable(getattr(object, method_name))] I discovered it at diveintopython.net (now archived), that should provide some further details! If you get an AttributeError, you can use this instead: getattr() is intolerant of pandas style … Read more
import inspect def foo(): print(inspect.stack()[0][3]) print(inspect.stack()[1][3]) # will give the caller of foos name, if something called foo foo() output: foo <module_caller_of_foo>
You want vars() mixed with pprint(): from pprint import pprint pprint(vars(your_object))
Have you tried the __name__ attribute of the class? ie type(x).__name__ will give you the name of the class, which I think is what you want. >>> import itertools >>> x = itertools.count(0) >>> type(x).__name__ ‘count’ If you’re still using Python 2, note that the above method works with new-style classes only (in Python 3+ … Read more