Let's go back to our words module and experiment with it further at the REPL. On this occasion we'll import just the module:
$ python3 Python 3.5.0 (default, Nov 3 2015, 13:17:02) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import words
The import
statement binds a module
object to the name words
in the current namespace. We can determine the type of any object by using the type()
built-in function:
>>> type(words) <class 'module'>
If we want to see the attributes of an object, we can use the dir()
built-in function in a Python interactive session to introspect an object:
>>> dir(words) ['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__initializing__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', 'fetch_words', 'main', 'print_items', 'sys', 'urlopen']
The dir()
function returns a sorted list of the module attribute names, including:
- The ones...