I have a Python module installed on my system and I'd like to be able to see what functions/classes/methods are available in it. I want to call the help function on each one. In Ruby I can do somet...
Worthy of note: the reason this works is because functions are first class objects in Python. When you refer to a, b, and c this way, you're using variables of those names that happen to contain functions.
159 Functions are first class objects in Python and so you can dispatch using a dictionary. For example, if foo and bar are functions, and dispatcher is a dictionary like so.
Given a Python object of any kind, is there an easy way to get the list of all methods that this object has? Or if this is not possible, is there at least an easy way to check if it has a particular
1 You can store functions as parameters, since functions in python are treated as first class citizens, which means you can effectively use them / treat them as you would a variable. In your case, it isn't working because you're calling the function, not referencing the function.
The Python 2 documentation says: Built-in Functions: map (function, iterable, ...) Apply function to every item of iterable and return a list of the results. If additional iterable arguments are pa...
I would like to use a switch statement in Python, but since there is not a switch statement in python, I would like to use a list of functions. However, when I define the list, the functions are ex...
Why is the output of the following two list comprehensions different, even though f and the lambda function are the same? f = lambda x: x*x [f(x) for x in range(10)] and [lambda x: x*x for x in r...
Question How can one automatically return a list of all python functions (within a workspace in vscode)/ (across a set of folders), that occur only once (at its creation with def function_name(.., whilst never being called)? Assumption I assume no duplicate function names exist within these projects.
