Python is a highly dynamic language, and this dynamism is enabled by a great deal of metadata associated with objects at runtime. In this course, Core Python 3: Introspection, you’ll explore Python’s support for introspection, the ability of a program to examine – and even modify – its own structure and state through this metadata. First, you’ll look at introspection as the key to elegant designs or debugging complex problems. Then, you’ll be introduced to Python’s facilities for introspecting live programs. Finally, you’ll learn how to examine objects, types, and program state at runtime. By the end of this course you’ll know how to query objects for their attributes and inspect program state, and you’ll have a deeper knowledge of how Python programs are arranged internally.
Author Name: Austin Bingham
Author Description:
Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an ex… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Introspecting Types
  3mins
• Introspecting Objects
  4mins
• Introspecting Scopes
  3mins
• The Inspect Module
  6mins
• An Object Introspection Tool
  10mins