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Commit 52e85508 authored by Ezio Melotti's avatar Ezio Melotti
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Update section about dir() in the tutorial.

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......@@ -288,16 +288,21 @@ defines. It returns a sorted list of strings::
>>> import fibo, sys
>>> dir(fibo)
['__name__', 'fib', 'fib2']
>>> dir(sys)
['__displayhook__', '__doc__', '__excepthook__', '__name__', '__stderr__',
'__stdin__', '__stdout__', '_getframe', 'api_version', 'argv',
'builtin_module_names', 'byteorder', 'callstats', 'copyright',
'displayhook', 'exc_info', 'excepthook',
'exec_prefix', 'executable', 'exit', 'getdefaultencoding', 'getdlopenflags',
'getrecursionlimit', 'getrefcount', 'hexversion', 'maxint', 'maxunicode',
'meta_path', 'modules', 'path', 'path_hooks', 'path_importer_cache',
'platform', 'prefix', 'ps1', 'ps2', 'setcheckinterval', 'setdlopenflags',
'setprofile', 'setrecursionlimit', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout',
>>> dir(sys) # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
['__displayhook__', '__doc__', '__excepthook__', '__name__', '__package__',
'__stderr__', '__stdin__', '__stdout__', '_clear_type_cache',
'_current_frames', '_getframe', '_mercurial', '_xoptions', 'abiflags',
'api_version', 'argv', 'builtin_module_names', 'byteorder', 'call_tracing',
'callstats', 'copyright', 'displayhook', 'dont_write_bytecode', 'exc_info',
'excepthook', 'exec_prefix', 'executable', 'exit', 'flags', 'float_info',
'float_repr_style', 'getcheckinterval', 'getdefaultencoding',
'getdlopenflags', 'getfilesystemencoding', 'getobjects', 'getprofile',
'getrecursionlimit', 'getrefcount', 'getsizeof', 'getswitchinterval',
'gettotalrefcount', 'gettrace', 'hash_info', 'hexversion', 'int_info',
'intern', 'maxsize', 'maxunicode', 'meta_path', 'modules', 'path',
'path_hooks', 'path_importer_cache', 'platform', 'prefix', 'ps1',
'setcheckinterval', 'setdlopenflags', 'setprofile', 'setrecursionlimit',
'setswitchinterval', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout', 'subversion',
'version', 'version_info', 'warnoptions']
Without arguments, :func:`dir` lists the names you have defined currently::
......@@ -306,7 +311,7 @@ Without arguments, :func:`dir` lists the names you have defined currently::
>>> import fibo
>>> fib = fibo.fib
>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 'a', 'fib', 'fibo', 'sys']
['__builtins__', '__name__', 'a', 'fib', 'fibo', 'sys']
Note that it lists all types of names: variables, modules, functions, etc.
......@@ -317,28 +322,31 @@ want a list of those, they are defined in the standard module
:mod:`builtins`::
>>> import builtins
>>> dir(builtins)
['ArithmeticError', 'AssertionError', 'AttributeError', 'BaseException', 'Buffer
Error', 'BytesWarning', 'DeprecationWarning', 'EOFError', 'Ellipsis', 'Environme
ntError', 'Exception', 'False', 'FloatingPointError', 'FutureWarning', 'Generato
rExit', 'IOError', 'ImportError', 'ImportWarning', 'IndentationError', 'IndexErr
or', 'KeyError', 'KeyboardInterrupt', 'LookupError', 'MemoryError', 'NameError',
'None', 'NotImplemented', 'NotImplementedError', 'OSError', 'OverflowError', 'P
endingDeprecationWarning', 'ReferenceError', 'RuntimeError', 'RuntimeWarning', '
StopIteration', 'SyntaxError', 'SyntaxWarning', 'SystemError', 'SystemExit', 'Ta
bError', 'True', 'TypeError', 'UnboundLocalError', 'UnicodeDecodeError', 'Unicod
eEncodeError', 'UnicodeError', 'UnicodeTranslateError', 'UnicodeWarning', 'UserW
arning', 'ValueError', 'Warning', 'ZeroDivisionError', '__build_class__', '__deb
ug__', '__doc__', '__import__', '__name__', '__package__', 'abs', 'all', 'any',
'ascii', 'bin', 'bool', 'bytearray', 'bytes', 'chr', 'classmethod', 'compile', '
complex', 'copyright', 'credits', 'delattr', 'dict', 'dir', 'divmod', 'enumerate
', 'eval', 'exec', 'exit', 'filter', 'float', 'format', 'frozenset', 'getattr',
'globals', 'hasattr', 'hash', 'help', 'hex', 'id', 'input', 'int', 'isinstance',
'issubclass', 'iter', 'len', 'license', 'list', 'locals', 'map', 'max', 'memory
view', 'min', 'next', 'object', 'oct', 'open', 'ord', 'pow', 'print', 'property'
, 'quit', 'range', 'repr', 'reversed', 'round', 'set', 'setattr', 'slice', 'sort
ed', 'staticmethod', 'str', 'sum', 'super', 'tuple', 'type', 'vars', 'zip']
>>> dir(builtins) # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
['ArithmeticError', 'AssertionError', 'AttributeError', 'BaseException',
'BufferError', 'BytesWarning', 'DeprecationWarning', 'EOFError',
'Ellipsis', 'EnvironmentError', 'Exception', 'False', 'FloatingPointError',
'FutureWarning', 'GeneratorExit', 'IOError', 'ImportError',
'ImportWarning', 'IndentationError', 'IndexError', 'KeyError',
'KeyboardInterrupt', 'LookupError', 'MemoryError', 'NameError', 'None',
'NotImplemented', 'NotImplementedError', 'OSError', 'OverflowError',
'PendingDeprecationWarning', 'ReferenceError', 'ResourceWarning',
'RuntimeError', 'RuntimeWarning', 'StopIteration', 'SyntaxError',
'SyntaxWarning', 'SystemError', 'SystemExit', 'TabError', 'True',
'TypeError', 'UnboundLocalError', 'UnicodeDecodeError',
'UnicodeEncodeError', 'UnicodeError', 'UnicodeTranslateError',
'UnicodeWarning', 'UserWarning', 'ValueError', 'Warning',
'ZeroDivisionError', '_', '__build_class__', '__debug__', '__doc__',
'__import__', '__name__', '__package__', 'abs', 'all', 'any', 'ascii',
'bin', 'bool', 'bytearray', 'bytes', 'callable', 'chr', 'classmethod',
'compile', 'complex', 'copyright', 'credits', 'delattr', 'dict', 'dir',
'divmod', 'enumerate', 'eval', 'exec', 'exit', 'filter', 'float', 'format',
'frozenset', 'getattr', 'globals', 'hasattr', 'hash', 'help', 'hex', 'id',
'input', 'int', 'isinstance', 'issubclass', 'iter', 'len', 'license',
'list', 'locals', 'map', 'max', 'memoryview', 'min', 'next', 'object',
'oct', 'open', 'ord', 'pow', 'print', 'property', 'quit', 'range', 'repr',
'reversed', 'round', 'set', 'setattr', 'slice', 'sorted', 'staticmethod',
'str', 'sum', 'super', 'tuple', 'type', 'vars', 'zip']
.. _tut-packages:
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