easy way to dump a class instance?

[Mark Harrison]

Is there a way to automatically print all the instance
data in a class? This is for debugging, I would like
to do something like dump(self) to snapshot the state
of the object.

Many TIA!
Mark

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Mark Harrison
Pixar Animation Studios

[bruno at modulix]

Mark Harrison wrote:

Is there a way to automatically print all the instance
data in a class? This is for debugging, I would like
to do something like dump(self) to snapshot the state
of the object.

def dump(obj):
buf = ['%r %s :' % (obj, str(obj)]
for name in dir(obj):
attr = getattr(obj, name)
if not callable(attr):
buf.append["- %s : %s" % (name, str(attr))]
return '\n'.join(buf)

Not tested...

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bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'o****@xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

Mark Harrison wrote:

Is there a way to automatically print all the instance
data in a class? This is for debugging, I would like
to do something like dump(self) to snapshot the state
of the object.

Would something like cPickle work? That allows you to dump objects into
files as they are and read them again as they were. Its fairly easy to
use and might work well for you.

HTH

-carl
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Carl J. Van Arsdall
cv*********@mvista.com
Build and Release
MontaVista Software

[Kamilche]

Mark Harrison wrote:

Is there a way to automatically print all the instance
data in a class?

print self.__dict__

[wittempj]

Some Googling yielded this recipe
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo...7951/index_txt,
a little test shows promising results of the described recipe. BTW: the
Python Cookbook is always a good place to browse with questions other
people probably had as well!

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Kamilche a écrit :

Mark Harrison wrote:

Is there a way to automatically print all the instance
data in a class?

print self.__dict__

Yeps - if you don't mind missing class attributes and data descriptors.