pynaut 0.2.9

pynaunt allows you to deeply explore and introspect arbitrary python objects.

As an example, we can explore the os module just a bit:

>>> from pynaut import Container
>>> import os
>>> obj = Container(os)
>>> len(obj.children)
220
>>> w = list(obj.grep_attr_names('wait'))
>>> len(w)
4
>>> [a.metadata.name for a in w]
['wait', 'wait4', 'wait3', 'waitpid']
>>> from types import ModuleType
>>> test = lambda c: isinstance(c.obj, (bool, list, ModuleType))
>>> foo = list(obj.get_attr_matches(test))
>>> len(foo)
20
>>> [a.metadata.name for a in foo]
['_copy_reg', 'UserDict', '_abcoll', 'sys', 'py3kwarning', 'meta_path',
 'path_hooks', 'argv', 'warnoptions', 'path', 'errno', 'path', '__self__',
 'genericpath', 'stat', 'os', 'warnings', 'filters', 'types', 'linecache']
>>>

Additionally, there is support for searching an entire object tree for a (name, attribute) pair that meets an arbitrary condition.

pynaut also includes a very basic curses based interface (pynaut_curses) that lets you explore objects by descending through the attribute tree.