Deeply inspect Python objects with WAT

• Inspect everything about a python object
• More powerful alternative to the built-in dir() and help() functions
• Intended to be used in the Python REPL (e.g. while debugging with pdb)
• Some of its functionality is probably available in your IDE (e.g. seeing a function’s signature and docstring, going to the source code definition of an object, inspecting variables at breakpoints while debugging, etc)
• What can it do that an IDE can’t?
  • confirming the type via wat.short — better result than IDE type inference? same?

pip install wat-inspector

import wat
 
wat / object_to_inspect # intended to be faster to type
wat(object_to_inspect) # this also works
 
wat.short / object_to_inspect
wat.long
wat.dunder
wat.code
wat.nodocs
wat.all
 

• igrek51/wat: Deep inspection of Python objects repo
• WAT docs

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