Object Inspectors (xonsh.inspectors)

Tools for inspecting Python objects.

This file was forked from the IPython project:

class xonsh.inspectors.Inspector(str_detail_level=0)[source]

Inspects objects.

info(obj, oname='', info=None, detail_level=0)[source]

Compute a dict with detailed information about an object.

Optional arguments:

  • oname: name of the variable pointing to the object.
  • info: a structure with some information fields which may have been precomputed already.
  • detail_level: if set to 1, more information is given.
noinfo(msg, oname)[source]

Generic message when no information is found.

pdef(obj, oname='')[source]

Print the call signature for any callable object.

If the object is a class, print the constructor information.

pdoc(obj, oname='')[source]

Print the docstring for any object.

Optional

-formatter: a function to run the docstring through for specially formatted docstrings.

pfile(obj, oname='')[source]

Show the whole file where an object was defined.

pinfo(obj, oname='', info=None, detail_level=0)[source]

Show detailed information about an object.

Parameters:

obj : object

oname : str, optional

name of the variable pointing to the object.

info : dict, optional

a structure with some information fields which may have been precomputed already.

detail_level : int, optional

if set to 1, more information is given.
psource(obj, oname='')[source]

Print the source code for an object.

pinfo_fields1 = [('Type', 'type_name')]
pinfo_fields2 = [('String form', 'string_form')]
pinfo_fields3 = [('Length', 'length'), ('File', 'file'), ('Definition', 'definition')]
pinfo_fields_obj = [('Class docstring', 'class_docstring'), ('Init docstring', 'init_docstring'), ('Call def', 'call_def'), ('Call docstring', 'call_docstring')]
xonsh.inspectors.call_tip(oinfo, format_call=True)[source]

Extract call tip data from an oinfo dict.

Parameters:

oinfo : dict

format_call : bool, optional

If True, the call line is formatted and returned as a string. If not, a tuple of (name, argspec) is returned.
Returns:

call_info : None, str or (str, dict) tuple.

When format_call is True, the whole call information is formatted as a single string. Otherwise, the object’s name and its argspec dict are returned. If no call information is available, None is returned.

docstring : str or None

The most relevant docstring for calling purposes is returned, if available. The priority is: call docstring for callable instances, then constructor docstring for classes, then main object’s docstring otherwise (regular functions).
xonsh.inspectors.find_file(obj)[source]

Find the absolute path to the file where an object was defined.

This is essentially a robust wrapper around inspect.getabsfile.

Returns None if no file can be found.

Parameters:

obj : any Python object
Returns:

fname : str

The absolute path to the file where the object was defined.
xonsh.inspectors.find_source_lines(obj)[source]

Find the line number in a file where an object was defined.

This is essentially a robust wrapper around inspect.getsourcelines.

Returns None if no file can be found.

Parameters:

obj : any Python object
Returns:

lineno : int

The line number where the object definition starts.
xonsh.inspectors.format_argspec(argspec)[source]

Format argspect, convenience wrapper around inspect’s.

This takes a dict instead of ordered arguments and calls inspect.format_argspec with the arguments in the necessary order.

xonsh.inspectors.get_encoding(obj)[source]

Get encoding for python source file defining obj

Returns None if obj is not defined in a sourcefile.

xonsh.inspectors.getargspec(obj)[source]

Wrapper around inspect.getfullargspec() on Python 3, and :func:inspect.getargspec` on Python 2.

In addition to functions and methods, this can also handle objects with a __call__ attribute.

xonsh.inspectors.getdoc(obj)[source]

Stable wrapper around inspect.getdoc.

This can’t crash because of attribute problems.

It also attempts to call a getdoc() method on the given object. This allows objects which provide their docstrings via non-standard mechanisms (like Pyro proxies) to still be inspected by ipython’s ? system.

xonsh.inspectors.getsource(obj, is_binary=False)[source]

Wrapper around inspect.getsource.

This can be modified by other projects to provide customized source extraction.

Inputs:

  • obj: an object whose source code we will attempt to extract.

Optional inputs:

  • is_binary: whether the object is known to come from a binary source. This implementation will skip returning any output for binary objects, but custom extractors may know how to meaningfully process them.
xonsh.inspectors.is_simple_callable(obj)[source]

True if obj is a function ()

xonsh.inspectors.object_info(**kw)[source]

Make an object info dict with all fields present.