If you want to look inside a live object, then python's inspect module is a good answer. In general, it works for getting the source code of functions that are defined in a source file somewhere on disk. If you want to get the source of live functions and lambdas that were defined in the interpreter, you can use dill.source.getsource from dill. It also can get the code for from bound or unbound class methods and functions defined in curries... however, you might not be able to compile that code without the enclosing object's code.

>>> from dill.source import getsource
>>> 
>>> def add(x,y):
...   return x+y
... 
>>> squared = lambda x:x**2
>>> 
>>> print getsource(add)
def add(x,y):
  return x+y

>>> print getsource(squared)
squared = lambda x:x**2

>>> 
>>> class Foo(object):
...   def bar(self, x):
...     return x*x+x
... 
>>> f = Foo()
>>> 
>>> print getsource(f.bar)
def bar(self, x):
    return x*x+x

>>> 

如果您正在寻找一个稍微更微妙的解决方案，您可以尝试objprint。它的一个积极的方面是它可以处理嵌套对象。例如:

from objprint import objprint

class Position:
    def __init__(self, x, y):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y

class Player:
    def __init__(self):
        self.name = "Alice"
        self.age = 18
        self.items = ["axe", "armor"]
        self.coins = {"gold": 1, "silver": 33, "bronze": 57}
        self.position = Position(3, 5)

objprint(Player())

会打印出来

<Player
  .name = 'Alice',
  .age = 18,
  .items = ['axe', 'armor'],
  .coins = {'gold': 1, 'silver': 33, 'bronze': 57},
  .position = <Position
    .x = 3,
    .y = 5
  >
>

其他人已经提到了dir()内置，这听起来像是您正在寻找的，但这里有另一个很好的提示。许多库——包括大多数标准库——都是以源代码形式发布的。这意味着您可以很容易地直接阅读源代码。诀窍在于找到它;例如:

>>> import string
>>> string.__file__
'/usr/lib/python2.5/string.pyc'

*。Pyc文件已编译，因此删除后面的'c'，并在您最喜欢的编辑器或文件查看器中打开未编译的*.py文件:

/usr/lib/python2.5/string.py

我发现这对于发现从给定API引发哪些异常等事情非常有用。这种细节在Python世界中很少有良好的文档。

我很惊讶居然没人提到帮助!

In [1]: def foo():
   ...:     "foo!"
   ...:

In [2]: help(foo)
Help on function foo in module __main__:

foo()
    foo!

Help让您阅读文档字符串并了解类可能具有的属性，这非常有用。

Python有一组强大的自省特性。

看看下面的内置函数:

(型) dir () (id) getattr () hasattr () globals () locals () callable ()

Type()和dir()分别对于检查对象的类型及其属性集特别有用。

如果你对此感兴趣，可以看看objbrowser。它使用Python标准库中的inspect模块进行下面的对象内省。