Using Rich Inspect to Interrogate Python Objects

Will McGugan’s article goes through another way Rich can help with formatting. The rest of the article are my notes.

If you invoke it with any object inspect will display a nicely formatted report on that object – which makes it great for interrogating objects from the REPL.

>>> from rich import inspect
>>> text_file = open("foo.txt", "w")
>>> inspect(text_file)

By default, inspect will generate a data-oriented summary with a text representation of the object and its data attributes. You can also add methods=True to show all the methods in the public API. Also if you want to see the full unabbreviated help you can add help=True.

Finally there are few more arguments to refine the level of detail you need. You can see the full range of options with this delightful little incantation:

>>> inspect(inspect)