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Re: Enhanced dir() function

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Ethan Furman wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
>> If it came in as an effortless (i.e. O(1) where I do it once and never 
>> again; not an O(n) where n=the number of times I invoke Python) 
>> default replacement for dir(), I'd reach for it a lot more readily.  I 
>> seem to recall there's some environment-var or magic file-name that 
>> gets sourced on every startup.
> 
> interact.py
> 8<-----------------------------------------------
> import os, sys
> sys.ps1 = '--> '
> 
> from cookbook.utils import dir  # or whereever you keep your copy
> sys.modules['__builtin__'].dir = dir
> 8<-----------------------------------------------


Imagine my amusement when I went to change an environment variable today 
and found:

PYTHONSTARTUP=c:\python25\interact.py

~Ethan~

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Enhanced dir() function Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-01 14:29 +1000
  Re: Enhanced dir() function Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-07-01 12:20 -0500
    Re: Enhanced dir() function Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-02 04:32 +1000
    Re: Enhanced dir() function rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-12 14:46 -0700
      Re: Enhanced dir() function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 14:20 +1000
  Re: Enhanced dir() function Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-01 11:40 -0700
  Re: Enhanced dir() function Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-12 14:19 -0700
  Re: Enhanced dir() function rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-12 14:38 -0700

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