Newbie question here:


How does one go about discovering the attributes and attribute names
of an unknown object?


At the moment I'm building a MySQL database with a Zope front end. My
client will be storing Microsoft Word documents in the system (it's a
management tool for academic reviews of submissions to a journal). I
have a blob field in the manuscript database, and I can add in fields
for MIME type and such if needed; but all the information I have on
the file once it's uploaded is

<fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger><bigger>

<<ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.FileUpload instance at 0x3d3188cc> 

</bigger></bigger></fontfamily>

Now, this would be all fine and well if I knew what the properties and
methods supported by the FileUpload object were, but I don't and I
can't find documentation of that; I also tried iterating through the
object to see if I could coax the information out that way:


<<table border>

<<tr tal:repeat="theFile container/REQUEST/Manuscript_File>

<<td tal:content="repeat/theFile/name">property name<</td>

<<td tal:content="repeat/theFile/item">property data<</td>

<</tr>

<</table>


but it says the object does not support iteration.


So: I guess I have two questions:

(1) how can one determine the data and properties of an uploaded file?

(2) how can one determine the properties of an arbitrary object?


TIA!

Murray