Three ways to use Python's 'vars' function

Python's "vars" function can be used in three different ways — and while it's unlikely to play a part in your production code, it can be quite useful in debugging and exploring. In this video, I demonstrate all three of these uses, which can also give us insights into Python's variables and attributes.

[PythonlawsWelton]

you explained the function "vars" so nicely!

[d-i-ry]

your explanations are always SO clear! thanks

[GuillaumeBeaudin]

I really like SimpleNamespace to group variables and access values with the dot notation. So, one way I have been using vars() is to convert a SimpleNamespace to a dictionary since it doesn't have a dedicated method for it like NamedTuple have (_asdict()).

[mergen.t]

how is calling `vars()` different from `locals()` if `locals()` also returns global variables outside a function definition?