AttributeError: How to list existing attributes?

[Thomas Guettler]

Hi,

how can you list the attributes of an object if you catch an
AttributeError?

I couldn't find a reference in the exception object, which
points to the object.

I want to call dir() on the object to list the user the known
attributes.

Is there a way to find the object by inspecting the stacktrace?

Thomas

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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Thomas Guettler wrote:

Hi,

how can you list the attributes of an object if you catch an
AttributeError?

I couldn't find a reference in the exception object, which
points to the object.

I want to call dir() on the object to list the user the known
attributes.

Is there a way to find the object by inspecting the stacktrace?

By looking at the code at the line the stacktrace lists? And at least for
me, there is a type-information as well:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:56:35)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
clWelcome to rlcompleter2 0.96
for nice experiences hit <tabmultiple times

>>class Foo(object): pass

....

>>f = Foo()
f.foo

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Foo' object has no attribute 'foo'

>>>

You can't possibly know which attributes the object has, though. Because it
might be an attribute dynamically added.

So the best thing is to put a print-statement before the exception-throwing
line or put a

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

there, and fiddle around with the object.

Diez

[Thomas Guettler]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

Thomas Guettler wrote:

>Hi,

how can you list the attributes of an object if you catch an
AttributeError ?

I couldn't find a reference in the exception object, which
points to the object.

I want to call dir() on the object to list the user the known
attributes.

Is there a way to find the object by inspecting the stacktrace?

By looking at the code at the line the stacktrace lists? And at least for
me, there is a type-information as well:

Hello,

I want to customize the debug tracebacks displayed in django.
It is not to find one particular error. That's why changing the
source is not a solution.

Thomas

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