How can I lookup an attribute in any scope by name?
- by Wai Yip Tung
How can I lookup an attribute in any scope by name? My first trial is to use globals() and locals(). e.g.
>>> def foo(name):
... a=1
... print globals().get(name), locals().get(name)
...
>>> foo('a')
None 1
>>> b=1
>>> foo('b')
1 None
>>> foo('foo')
<function foo at 0x014744B0> None
So far so good. However it fails to lookup any built-in names.
>>> range
<built-in function range>
>>> foo('range')
None None
>>> int
<type 'int'>
>>> foo('int')
None None
Any idea on how to lookup built-in attributes?
