Python Object Inspector GUI

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What I would like is a handy GUI to inspect objects. The dir() function just isn't enough sometimes!

What would happen would I would type view_object(module) and it would give me a GUI window that has

Features: - Tree-view representation, similar to a file-viewer. This would let me see all the classes, and I could expand/contract these views. - selecting on any object lets me see any doc attributes.

Ideally it would also let me cntrl+click on an object (or some other command) and open up the tree-view on THAT object, within IT'S module!

This shouldn't be THAT hard to make, so I assume someone has made it, I'm just having a hell of a time finding it!

Vilayet answered 23/9, 2011 at 20:22 Comment(0)

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Eclipse PyDev is really great. Especially debugger. I't heavy and it starts slowly, but it's a powerful tool.

Not only you can see a tree-view of any variable in a runtime but you can even modify it on the fly.

See Variables view: enter image description here

Witkin answered 23/9, 2011 at 20:28 Comment(1)

PyDev is fantastic. I used it for a while until I switched to Spyder (which is much more lightweight). In doing so I lost some things. I will try to boot up PyDev again if there is no other solution, but it would be great if there were a standalone application that I could run from the interpreter. (Edit: I forgot that PyDev had this feature. Thanks for reminding me) – Vilayet 23/9, 2011 at 22:21

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You can take a look at objbrowser (disclaimer I wrote it).

enter image description here

Counseloratlaw answered 18/4, 2014 at 0:18 Comment(2)

PySide doesn't seem to support Python 3.5, so I can't use your objbrowser. :( – Drachma 31/10, 2015 at 18:6

@trevor-sullivan: I'm working on version 1.1, which supports Python 3 and PyQt4. I've pushed the development branch to github so you can try it out if you want. – Counseloratlaw 15/11, 2015 at 22:22

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Eclipse PyDev is really great. Especially debugger. I't heavy and it starts slowly, but it's a powerful tool.

Not only you can see a tree-view of any variable in a runtime but you can even modify it on the fly.

See Variables view: enter image description here

Witkin answered 23/9, 2011 at 20:28 Comment(1)

PyDev is fantastic. I used it for a while until I switched to Spyder (which is much more lightweight). In doing so I lost some things. I will try to boot up PyDev again if there is no other solution, but it would be great if there were a standalone application that I could run from the interpreter. (Edit: I forgot that PyDev had this feature. Thanks for reminding me) – Vilayet 23/9, 2011 at 22:21

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