twisted.python.reflect module documentation

Return the fully qualified name of a module, class, method or function. Classes and functions need to be module level ones to be correctly qualified.

Given a class object classObj, returns a list of method names that match the string prefix.

This goes through classObj (and its bases) and puts method names starting with 'prefix' in 'dict' with a value of 1. if baseClass isn't None, methods will only be added if classObj is-a baseClass

If the class in question has the methods 'prefix_methodname' and 'prefix_methodname2', the resulting dict should look something like: {"methodname": 1, "methodname2": 1}.

Given an object obj, returns a list of method objects that match the string prefix.

Given an object obj, add all methods that begin with prefix.

Return a module given its name.

Get a fully named module-global object.

Try to import a module given its name, returning default value if ImportError is raised during import.

Retrieve a Python object by its fully qualified name from the global Python module namespace. The first part of the name, that describes a module, will be discovered and imported. Each subsequent part of the name is treated as the name of an attribute of the object specified by all of the name which came before it. For example, the fully-qualified name of this object is 'twisted.python.reflect.namedAny'.

Convert a name in the filesystem to the name of the Python module it is.

This is aggressive about getting a module name back from a file; it will always return a string. Aggressive means 'sometimes wrong'; it won't look at the Python path or try to do any error checking: don't use this method unless you already know that the filename you're talking about is a Python module.

Return full import path of a class.

Returns a string representation of an object, or a string containing a traceback, if that object's __repr__ raised an exception.

Returns a string representation of an object, or a string containing a traceback, if that object's __str__ raised an exception.

this is more documentation for myself than useful code.

Return the class or type of object 'obj'. Returns sensible result for oldstyle and newstyle instances and types.

allYourBase(classObj, baseClass=None) -> list of all base classes that are subclasses of baseClass, unless it is None, in which case all bases will be added.

Accumulate all attributes of a given name in a class hierarchy into a single dictionary.

Assuming all class attributes of this name are dictionaries. If any of the dictionaries being accumulated have the same key, the one highest in the class heirarchy wins. (XXX: If "highest" means "closest to the starting class".)

Ex:

 class Soy:
   properties = {"taste": "bland"}

 class Plant:
   properties = {"colour": "green"}

 class Seaweed(Plant):
   pass

 class Lunch(Soy, Seaweed):
   properties = {"vegan": 1 }

 dct = {}

 accumulateClassDict(Lunch, "properties", dct)

 print dct

{"taste": "bland", "colour": "green", "vegan": 1}

Accumulate all attributes of a given name in a class heirarchy into a single list.

Assuming all class attributes of this name are lists.

An insanely CPU-intensive process for finding stuff.