objex was created because I needed a way to quickly find out what a
given object was and what it could do. In the longer-term, I'd like it
to be an awesome interactive programming tool for Python.
The original goal was to pass objex an object which would cause it to
pause the Python interpreter, serving up a web page that allowed you
to poke around the given object. I still need to do a ton of work on
providing a clean way to do this but a proof-of-concept is provided in
browser_test.py (minus the part where it pauses the interpreter).
The easiest way to get started is:
git clone git://github.com/johnthedebs/objex.git
mkvirtualenv objex && pip install -r requirements.txt
python objex/browser_test.py
This launches a little Bottle server at http://localhost:8001 that gets
a bunch of info out of a simple and very contrived Cat class. Play
around! And if you can make it better (I'm sure you can) please send me
pull requests.