Comer Duncan wrote:
Hi,
I have a newbie type question. Say I have started a python (or
ipython) session and have done some imports and have also defined some
new variables since the session started. So, I have in my current
namespace a bunch of things. Suppose I want to list just those
variable names which have been defined since the session started but
not include the names of the objects that who and whos will return.
What's "who and whos"?
How to do that? In matlab, this is what the who returns, but in
python I seem to always get a raft of things since I typically do
import a bunch of things.
That depends on what you are doing.
If you are using dir(), then you will get a list of all the currently existing
objects in your session. There's no way to show only "names defined since the
session started". Maybe iPython does something like that, but I doubt it.
Taken literally, I don't think you want is possible in Python. When objects
are created, they aren't timestamped with the moment of when they were
created, or who created them, or anything else. So there's no way to tell the
difference between "x = 1" done during system startup and "x = 1" done after
system startup.
But why do you care? If you explain in more detail what you are hoping to
accomplish, perhaps we can think of an alternative way to do so.
--
Steven
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