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# core.oinspect

## Module: `core.oinspect`

Inheritance diagram for `IPython.core.oinspect`:

Tools for inspecting Python objects.

Uses syntax highlighting for presenting the various information elements.

Similar in spirit to the inspect module, but all calls take a name argument to reference the name under which an object is being read.

## Class

## `Inspector`

class `IPython.core.oinspect.``Inspector`(color_table={'': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x28c26c8>, 'LightBG': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x28c2560>, 'NoColor': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x28c2638>, 'Linux': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x28c26c8>}, code_color_table={'': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x2837518>, 'LightBG': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x2837a70>, 'NoColor': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x285ed88>, 'Linux': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x2837518>}, scheme='NoColor', str_detail_level=0)
  `__init__`(color_table={'': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x28c26c8>, 'LightBG': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x28c2560>, 'NoColor': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x28c2638>, 'Linux': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x28c26c8>}, code_color_table={'': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x2837518>, 'LightBG': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x2837a70>, 'NoColor': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x285ed88>, 'Linux': <IPython.utils.coloransi.ColorScheme instance at 0x2837518>}, scheme='NoColor', str_detail_level=0)
  `info`(obj, oname='', formatter=None, info=None, detail_level=0)

    Compute a dict with detailed information about an object.

    Optional arguments:

    - oname: name of the variable pointing to the object.
    - formatter: special formatter for docstrings (see pdoc)
    - info: a structure with some information fields which may have been

    precomputed already.

    - detail_level: if set to 1, more information is given.
  `noinfo`(msg, oname)

    Generic message when no information is found.

  `pdef`(obj, oname='')

    Print the definition header for any callable object.

    If the object is a class, print the constructor information.

  `pdoc`(obj, oname='', formatter=None)

    Print the docstring for any object.

    Optional: -formatter: a function to run the docstring through for specially formatted docstrings.

    Examples

    In [1]: class NoInit:
      ...: pass
    In [2]: class NoDoc:
      ...: def __init__(self): ...: pass

    In [3]: %pdoc NoDoc No documentation found for NoDoc

    In [4]: %pdoc NoInit No documentation found for NoInit

    In [5]: obj = NoInit()

    In [6]: %pdoc obj No documentation found for obj

    In [5]: obj2 = NoDoc()

    In [6]: %pdoc obj2 No documentation found for obj2

  `pfile`(obj, oname='')

    Show the whole file where an object was defined.

  `pinfo`(obj, oname='', formatter=None, info=None, detail_level=0)

    Show detailed information about an object.

    Optional arguments:

    - oname: name of the variable pointing to the object.
    - formatter: special formatter for docstrings (see pdoc)
    - info: a structure with some information fields which may have been

    precomputed already.

    - detail_level: if set to 1, more information is given.
  `pinfo_fields1` = [('Type', 'type_name'), ('Base Class', 'base_class'), ('String Form', 'string_form'), ('Namespace', 'namespace'), ('Length', 'length'), ('File', 'file'), ('Definition', 'definition')]
  `pinfo_fields_obj` = [('Class Docstring', 'class_docstring'), ('Constructor Docstring', 'init_docstring'), ('Call def', 'call_def'), ('Call docstring', 'call_docstring')]
  `psearch`(pattern, ns_table, ns_search=[], ignore_case=False, show_all=False)

    Search namespaces with wildcards for objects.

    Arguments:

    - pattern: string containing shell-like wildcards to use in namespace

    searches and optionally a type specification to narrow the search to objects of that type.

    - ns_table: dict of name->namespaces for search.

    Optional arguments:

    > - ns_search: list of namespace names to include in search.
    > - ignore_case(False): make the search case-insensitive.
    > - show_all(False): show all names, including those starting with

    > underscores.

  `psource`(obj, oname='')

    Print the source code for an object.

  `set_active_scheme`(scheme)

## Functions

`IPython.core.oinspect.``call_tip`(oinfo, format_call=True)

  Extract call tip data from an oinfo dict.

  Parameters : | oinfo : dict format_call : bool, optional If True, the call line is formatted and returned as a string. If not, a tuple of (name, argspec) is returned.
  Returns : | call_info : None, str or (str, dict) tuple. When format_call is True, the whole call information is formattted as a single string. Otherwise, the object’s name and its argspec dict are returned. If no call information is available, None is returned. docstring : str or None The most relevant docstring for calling purposes is returned, if available. The priority is: call docstring for callable instances, then constructor docstring for classes, then main object’s docstring otherwise (regular functions).

`IPython.core.oinspect.``format_argspec`(argspec)

  Format argspect, convenience wrapper around inspect’s.

  This takes a dict instead of ordered arguments and calls inspect.format_argspec with the arguments in the necessary order.

`IPython.core.oinspect.``getargspec`(obj)

  Get the names and default values of a function’s arguments.

  A tuple of four things is returned: (args, varargs, varkw, defaults). ‘args’ is a list of the argument names (it may contain nested lists). ‘varargs’ and ‘varkw’ are the names of the * and ** arguments or None. ‘defaults’ is an n-tuple of the default values of the last n arguments.

  Modified version of inspect.getargspec from the Python Standard Library.

`IPython.core.oinspect.``getdoc`(obj)

  Stable wrapper around inspect.getdoc.

  This can’t crash because of attribute problems.

  It also attempts to call a getdoc() method on the given object. This allows objects which provide their docstrings via non-standard mechanisms (like Pyro proxies) to still be inspected by ipython’s ? system.

`IPython.core.oinspect.``getsource`(obj, is_binary=False)

  Wrapper around inspect.getsource.

  This can be modified by other projects to provide customized source extraction.

  Inputs:

  - obj: an object whose source code we will attempt to extract.

  Optional inputs:

  - is_binary: whether the object is known to come from a binary source.

  This implementation will skip returning any output for binary objects, but custom extractors may know how to meaningfully process them.

`IPython.core.oinspect.``object_info`(**kw)

  Make an object info dict with all fields present.

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