Show list of all available attributes and methods for the object we pass in:
from datetime import datetime print(dir(datetime)) # list of all available attributes and methods for the object we pass in ''' ['__add__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__radd__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rsub__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__subclasshook__', 'astimezone', 'combine', 'ctime', 'date', 'day', 'dst', 'fold', 'fromisocalendar', 'fromisoformat', 'fromordinal', 'fromtimestamp', 'hour', 'isocalendar', 'isoformat', 'isoweekday', 'max', 'microsecond', 'min', 'minute', 'month', 'now', 'replace', 'resolution', 'second', 'strftime', 'strptime', 'time', 'timestamp', 'timetuple', 'timetz', 'today', 'toordinal', 'tzinfo', 'tzname', 'utcfromtimestamp', 'utcnow', 'utcoffset', 'utctimetuple', 'weekday', 'year'] ''' print(type(Person())) # <class '__main__.Person'> print(Person) # <class '__main__.Person'>
Helpful debug info:
import sys, os print(sys.path) # where Python is looking to import modules from # ['D:\\python\\dev', # 'C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\Lib\\idlelib', # 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\google_appengine', # 'C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\python38.zip', # 'C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\DLLs', # 'C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\lib', # 'C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32', # 'C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\lib\\site-packages'] print(os.__file__) # prints path to the file # C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\os.py
Show help info:
from datetime import datetime help(datetime)