Intro to Introspection
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Claims that Python has ~70 built-in introspection helpers and that about 15 get used here to reconstruct what help prints, showing where names, docs and files live in __name__ __doc__ and __file__, how printing relies on __str__ vs __repr__, how function parameters sit in __code__.co_varnames with defaults and annotations, and when to prefer higher-level utilities like inspect.getmembers over poking dunders directly.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:36Overview
- 1:24Help
- 1:49Pickle
- 5:10Print
- 5:38Wrapper
- 7:02Help Output
- 7:46Classes
- 8:32Function
- 9:49Covar Names
- 10:14Defaults
- 11:13Inspect
- 12:49Type
- 13:52Callable
- 14:32Inheritance
- 15:06Abstract Based Classes
- 17:17Vars
- 19:49GetAdder
- 20:19Conclusion
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