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            def info(object, spacing=10, collapse=1):
    """Print methods and doc strings.

    Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string."""
    methodList = [e for e in dir(object) if callable(getattr(object, e))]
    processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: "".join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)
    print"n".join(["%s %s" %
                     (method.ljust(spacing),
                      processFunc(str(getattr(object, method).__doc__)))
                     for method in methodList])

if__name__ == "__main__":
    print help.__doc__

>>> a = "first"
>>> b = "second"
>>> 1 and a or b 1
‘first‘
>>> 0 and a or b 2
‘second‘

>>> a = ""
>>> b = "second"
>>> (1 and [a] or [b])[0] 1

            import
             unittest

            import
             apihelper

            import
             sys

            from StringIO import StringIO

class Redirector(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.savestdout = sys.stdout
        self.redirect = StringIO()
        sys.stdout = self.redirect

    def tearDown(self):
        sys.stdout = self.savestdout

class KnownValues(Redirector):
    def testApiHelper(self):
        """info should return known result for apihelper"""
        apihelper.info(apihelper)
        self.redirect.seek(0)
        self.assertEqual(self.redirect.read(),
"""info       Print methods and doc strings. Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string.
""")

class ParamChecks(Redirector):
    def testSpacing(self):
        """info should honor spacing argument"""
        apihelper.info(apihelper, spacing=20)
        self.redirect.seek(0)
        self.assertEqual(self.redirect.read(),
"""info                 Print methods and doc strings. Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string.
""")

    def testCollapse(self):
        """info should honor collapse argument"""
        apihelper.info(apihelper, collapse=0)
        self.redirect.seek(0)
        self.assertEqual(self.redirect.read(),
"""info       Print methods and doc strings.

    Takes module, class, list, dictionary, or string.
""")