Method _ofind

IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:1704–1824

Find an object in the available namespaces. Returns ------- OInfo with fields: - ismagic - isalias - found - obj - namespac - parent Has special code to detect magic functions.

(
        self, oname: str, namespaces: Optional[Sequence[Tuple[str, AnyType]]] = None
    )

        return parts_ok, parts

    def _ofind(
        self, oname: str, namespaces: Optional[Sequence[Tuple[str, AnyType]]] = None
    ) -> OInfo:
        """Find an object in the available namespaces.


        Returns
        -------
        OInfo with fields:
          - ismagic
          - isalias
          - found
          - obj
          - namespac
          - parent

        Has special code to detect magic functions.
        """
        oname = oname.strip()
        parts_ok, parts = self._find_parts(oname)

        if (
            not oname.startswith(ESC_MAGIC)
            and not oname.startswith(ESC_MAGIC2)
            and not parts_ok
        ):
            return OInfo(
                ismagic=False,
                isalias=False,
                found=False,
                obj=None,
                namespace=None,
                parent=None,
            )

        if namespaces is None:
            # Namespaces to search in:
            # Put them in a list. The order is important so that we
            # find things in the same order that Python finds them.
            namespaces = [ ('Interactive', self.user_ns),
                           ('Interactive (global)', self.user_global_ns),
                           ('Python builtin', builtin_mod.__dict__),
                           ]

        ismagic = False
        isalias = False
        found = False
        ospace = None
        parent = None
        obj = None


        # Look for the given name by splitting it in parts.  If the head is
        # found, then we look for all the remaining parts as members, and only
        # declare success if we can find them all.
        oname_parts = parts
        oname_head, oname_rest = oname_parts[0],oname_parts[1:]
        for nsname,ns in namespaces: