Note

This documentation is for a development version of IPython. There may be significant differences from the latest stable release.

Module: utils.dir2

A fancy version of Python’s builtin dir() function.

2 Functions

IPython.utils.dir2.safe_hasattr(obj, attr)

In recent versions of Python, hasattr() only catches AttributeError. This catches all errors.

IPython.utils.dir2.dir2(obj) → list of strings

Extended version of the Python builtin dir(), which does a few extra checks, and handles Traits objects, which can confuse dir().

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).