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print only user's variables in interactive mode

I am in the interactive mode of the python 3 interpreter.

I have created some variables of different data types. After some time I want to see a list of all variables that I have created. I tried using dir(); but this also shows the special python builtin variables: ['__annotations__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__']

How can I print only my variables?

Solution

  • The easiest way to exclude them is something like this:

    [val for val in dir() if val.strip('__') == val]

    Just don't define any variables that start or end with __.