igrek51/wat

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases

Adoption not part of the score

1946 stars · 32 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

WAT is a Python library for deep inspection of objects at runtime, revealing their type, value, attributes, methods, parent types, signatures, docs, and source code. It works in the Python interpreter via a `wat / object` syntax or a `wat(object)` call, and can even be loaded on the fly without installation.

Use cases

• inspect unknown python object in repl
• find methods and attributes of an object
• debug unfamiliar data structure at runtime
• view source code of a python function
• check object type and parent classes
• explore object signature and documentation

When to choose

• you're in a Python console and need to quickly understand an unfamiliar object
• you want zero-install inspection via a paste-in snippet
• you need type, methods, docs, and source in one view

When to avoid

• you need a full step debugger like pdb
• you need static type analysis of code rather than runtime inspection
• you're working in a non-Python language

Facets

library · maturity active

developer-tools cli documentation developer-tools programming-languages python cli cross-platform object-inspection debugging introspection repl python-introspection command-line

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="igrek51/wat")