or its awesome two friends: locals() and globals() to see their names and values simultaneously; I've gotten a lot of mileage out of that as a pseudo-debugger when the only insight you have is a logger in production

I used to, but wat offers a better printout of the methods: https://github.com/igrek51/wat

I bounce back and forth. First dir() then help()...

vars() is another good one if you're looking for something with a particular value.