"""Cheap and simple API helperThis program is part of "Dive Into Python", a free Python book forexperienced programmers.  Visit http://diveintopython.org/ for thelatest version."""__author__ = "Mark Pilgrim (mark@diveintopython.org)"__version__ = "$Revision: 1.3 $"__date__ = "$Date: 2004/05/05 21:57:19 $"__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2001 Mark Pilgrim"__license__ = "Python"# While this is a good example script to teach about introspection,# in real life it has been superceded by PyDoc, which is part of the# standard library in Python 2.1 and later.# # Your IDE may already import the "help" function from pydoc# automatically on startup; if not, do this:# # >>> from pydoc import help# # The help function in this module takes the object itself to get# help on, but PyDoc can also take a string, like this:# # >>> help("string") # gets help on the string module# >>> help("apihelper.help") # gets help on the function below# >>> help() # enters an interactive help mode# # PyDoc can also act as an HTTP server to dynamically produce# HTML-formatted documentation of any module in your path.# That's wicked cool.  Read more about PyDoc here:#   http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/04/18/pydoc.htmldef info(object, spacing=10, collapse=1):	"""Print methods and doc strings.	Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string."""	methodList = [e for e in dir(object) if callable(getattr(object, e))]	processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: " ".join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)	print "\n".join(["%s %s" %					 (method.ljust(spacing),					  processFunc(str(getattr(object, method).__doc__)))					 for method in methodList])if __name__ == "__main__":	print help.__doc__