API Helper

Python

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prints out methods/functions and their associated doc strings to assist you in using objects.

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def info(object, spacing=10, collapse=1):   
    """Print methods and doc strings.
    
    Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string.

    Usage is info(object)."""
    methodList = [method for method in dir(object) if callable(getattr(object, method))]
    processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: " ".join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)
    print "\n".join(["%s %s" %
                      (method.ljust(spacing),
                       processFunc(str(getattr(object, method).__doc__)))
                     for method in methodList])

if __name__ == "__main__":                 
    print info.__doc__