Given a Python object of any kind, is there an easy way to get the list of all methods that this object has? 19 Answers ...

...nsole program written for Unix to the Windows platform ( Visual C++ 8.0 ). All the source files include "unistd.h", which doesn't exist. Removing it, I get complaints about misssing prototypes for 'srandom', 'random', and 'getopt'. I know I can replace the random functions, and I'm pretty sure I ca...

... +1 I'd initialise the base class before calling any object method though. – Joachim Isaksson Jun 27 '13 at 21:25 ...

... hexadecimal. cppreference.com has a full listing of available macros for all types including intptr_t (PRIxPTR). There are separate macros for scanf, like SCNd64. A typical definition of PRIu16 would be "hu", so implicit string-constant concatenation happens at compile time. For your code to ...

... the module were a top level module, regardless of where the module is actually located on the file system. In Python 2.6, they're adding the ability to reference modules relative to the main module. PEP 366 describes the change. Update: According to Nick Coghlan, the recommended alternative is ...

...ut this, but I gave up in the end, as the rules are somewhat diffuse. Basically, you’ll have to get the hang of it. Perhaps it is best to concentrate on where curly braces and parenthesis can be used interchangeably: when passing parameters to method calls. You may replace parenthesis with curly b...

... What you are asking for is called multiple dispatch. See Julia language examples which demonstrates different types of dispatches. However, before looking at that, we'll first tackle why overloading is not really what you want in python. Why Not Overl...

... can be used to detect if a variable has been already initialized. Additionally and more ideal is the solution of empty() since it does not generate a warning or error message if the variable is not initialized. From PHP documentation: No warning is generated if the variable does not exist. T...

C++11 allows inline namespace s, all members of which are also automatically in the enclosing namespace . I cannot think of any useful application of this -- can somebody please give a brief, succinct example of a situation where an inline namespace is needed and where it is the most idiomatic s...

... longer return lists: [...] map() and filter() return iterators. If you really need a list, a quick fix is e.g. list(map(...)), but a better fix is often to use a list comprehension (especially when the original code uses lambda), or rewriting the code so it doesn’t need a list at all. Particular...