Hello, I'm modifying another person's python code for a toying/learning experience, and right now I am repeatedly getting the error:
(sometimes 'FOO' is an instance rather than an object, if you want to quibble)
To which my response is generally-- 'It doesn't? I thought FOO had that.. what does FOO really have, then? Maybe FOO isn't all that I thought it was.'

So, what I would like to be able to do is put a line of text into the script that goes something like:
so I can see what stuff FOO does and does not have.. (attributes, methods, what have you).

Is there such a command? I've tried searching google for things like "list attributes of an instance" (in which I intend "list" to be considered a verb) but it always gives me results treating "list" as a noun, which is understandable, but unhelpful.

Any help? Many thanks...

never tried this, but this is from python's site:


dir()???


http://docs.python.org/lib/specialattrs.html

Many thanks! That seems to do the trick! My own prejudice tripped me up, I guess.. I would never have thought that the command I was looking for would be named dir().. I'm too used to it meaning a directory listing, and I don't think of objects/instances as directories.. :/ maybe my brain isn't sufficiently pythonized..

anyway, thanks again!