Python tip: dir() with no arguments

If you do Python, you probably knew that you can ask an object what it has on it by saying dir(theobject).

I just found this out, though: you can also say dir() with no arguments to find out everything that's in your current namespace. No more losing temporary variables that you forgot about earlier in the repl. It works for finding out which modules you have loaded, too. Holy cow.

>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', '__package__']
>>> x = "this string is amazing"
>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', '__package__', 'x']