2007/11/29, MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage / gmail.com>: > People often want to look at an object's attributes when debugging. > [1] Python has a handy dir() function that lists the attributes of an > object. And I use it tons. I often use obj.methods.sort in ruby for > the same purpose. You can view the attributes quite conveniently with pp (you'll see instance variables nicely nested and indented as a tree). Kind regards robert -- use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end