When navigating the vast and wonderful Python ecosystem, the question of "What Is This?!" tends to come up frequently. As a believer in all things Pythonic, including so called syntactical sugar, I developed this simple helper module to speed up the process of learning new classes.
que_es.esto(), spanish for what is this, quickly prints an object's class so you can continue forward.
To get to know a new class, you could read the docs or API description, or use builtins with print statements - but why pull up a web browser when there are builtins - and yet who wants to type all this:
>>> print(type(unfamiliarObject))
>>> print(vars(unfamiliarObject))
>>> print(dir(unfamiliarObject))
>>> print(unfamiliarObject.__doc__)every time they have a question. While this is not an epic hardship, why waste time and mental energy that could be used for something better.
que_es.esto() prints an object's attributes, methods, docstring, and type, in human readable format.
pip install que_es
>>> import que_es
>>> que_es.esto([1,2,3])----
VARS
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Object has no __dict__ attributes
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DIR
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['__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']
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DOCSTRING
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list() -> new empty list
list(iterable) -> new list initialized from iterable's items
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TYPE
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<type 'list'>