Recursively explore an instance and print its component's types

show_primitive_types.py

def show_primitive_types(instance, depth=0):
    """
    Recursively explore an instance and print its components' types.
    """
    try:
        for attr in vars(instance):
            print('\t' * depth, attr, type(getattr(instance, attr)))
            show_primitive_types(getattr(instance, attr), depth+1)
    except TypeError:
        pass
    if isinstance(instance, list):
        for each in instance:
            show_primitive_types(each, depth+1)
    if isinstance(instance, dict):
        for k,v in instance.items():
            show_primitive_types(v, depth+1)