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timf
Installed, I like it. I do a lot of one-off Python with unfamiliar libs and that's just the thing.

Mapped it to der() ... because that just feels better, I guess.

mjtokelly
"Help us out here, Computer. This just will not cut it. Blimey!"

I enjoyed their documentation style.

illumen
If you like this, you'll love ipython.

Ipython makes introspection 3.14 times more fun.

timf
ipython rocks with the tab completion, is that what you mean? This is better than ipython's ? and ??.
juanpablo
I use

import readline, rlcompleter; readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

(executed at PYTHONSTARTUP) for tab completion.

timf
Thankyou for this, added to my portable remote node setup.
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mattj
ehh, this is just (questionable) formatting. After you use python for a while, the __methods__ should become pretty common-sensical (and seeing the actual __name__ is more useful if you're trying to reimplement protocols common objects support). That and not being able to manipulate the output of see() makes it pretty useless.

I personally like doing things like [f for f in dir(o) if 'foo' in f] etc.

inky
This was only intended as an alternative, not a replacement -- dir() is still extremely useful. see() was made for quickly inspecting objects interactively, hence "for humans only".