Python Notes/apihelper.py - short
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def info(object, spacing=10, collapse=1):
"""Print methods and doc strings.
Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string."""
methodList = [method for method in dir(object) if callable(getattr(object, method))]
processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: " ".join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)
print "\n".join(["%s %s" %
(method.ljust(spacing),
processFunc(str(getattr(object, method).__doc__)))
for method in methodList])
if __name__ == "__main__":
print info.__doc__
