wildcard

Module: wildcard

Inheritance diagram for IPython.wildcard:

Support for wildcard pattern matching in object inspection.

Authors

• Jörgen Stenarson <jorgen.stenarson@bostream.nu>

Class

NameSpace

class IPython.wildcard.NameSpace(obj, name_pattern='*', type_pattern='all', ignore_case=True, show_all=True)

Bases: object

NameSpace holds the dictionary for a namespace and implements filtering on name and types

__init__()

filter()

Return dictionary of filtered namespace.

get_ns()

Return name space dictionary with objects matching type and name patterns.

get_ns_names()

Return list of object names in namespace that match the patterns.

ns

Return name space dictionary with objects matching type and name patterns.

ns_names

List of objects in name space that match the type and name patterns.

Functions

IPython.wildcard.create_typestr2type_dicts()

Return dictionaries mapping lower case typename to type objects, from the types package, and vice versa.

IPython.wildcard.is_type()

is_type(obj,typestr_or_type) verifies if obj is of a certain type or group of types takes strings as parameters of the for ‘tuple’<->TupleType ‘all’ matches all types. TODO: Should be extended for choosing more than one type

IPython.wildcard.list_namespace()

Return dictionary of all objects in namespace that matches type_pattern and filter.

IPython.wildcard.show_hidden()

Return true for strings starting with single _ if show_all is true.