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Not ground breaking. But can be nice to see/have a list of every unique attr used across all the ui elements/controls. pprint is used to give a nice print out(sorted). Also, nice to see how easy it is when you get sets to do the heavy work.

Anyway, I wanted this for a lib I am doing, so I thought I would share the portion.

# Phuket2 , Pythonista Forums (Python profiency, not much)
# works for python 2 or 3
'''
    get_all_attrs_set - the main function of interest

    iterates over a list of all the ui Elements, and retuns a set of 
    all the unique attrs for all the ui Elements combined.

    i am sure this could be tighten up more. But imthink the readabilty
    is ok now. if not for ui.NavigationView, i would have tried to use 
    a list comp rather than the for. I could have tried to special case
    it, but i think personally this is more clear given what it is. 
'''

import ui, pprint
_ui_controls = \
    [
        ui.View, ui.Button, ui.ButtonItem, ui.ImageView, ui.Label,
        ui.NavigationView, ui.ScrollView, ui.SegmentedControl,
        ui.Slider, ui.Switch, ui.TableView, ui.TextField, ui.TextView,
        ui.WebView, ui.DatePicker, ui.ActivityIndicator, ui.TableViewCell
    ]

def get_full_dict(obj):
    # get all the dict attrs for obj, no filter
    return {k: getattr(obj, k) for k in dir(obj)}

def get_all_attrs_set():
    # return a set of unique attrs across all ui_elements
    # sets doing all the hard work with the union operator '|'
    s = set()
    for ctl in _ui_controls:
        try:
            s = s | set(get_full_dict(ctl()))
        except:
            # handle differently for ui.NavigationView, it needs a
            # ui.View as a param
            if ctl is ui.NavigationView:
                s = s | set(get_full_dict(ctl(ui.View())))
            else:
                # print out a control type if an error produced we
                # do not handle
                print(ctl)
    return s

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # pprint prints out a nice easy to view, sorted list of the attrs
    pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=5, width=80)
    attr_set = get_all_attrs_set()
    pp.pprint(attr_set)
    print('Number of unique attrs - {}'.format(len(attr_set)))

@Phuket2, Thank you! I have been looking at a few of your examples and I really appreciate your contributions!

This example made me want to be able to get all the attributes of specific ui elements, so I put something together real quick based off of your code..

import ui, pprint

items = [
    ui.View, ui.Button, ui.ButtonItem, ui.ImageView, ui.Label, ui.NavigationView, ui.ScrollView, ui.SegmentedControl, ui.Slider, ui.Switch, ui.TableView, ui.TextField, ui.TextView,
    ui.WebView, ui.DatePicker, ui.ActivityIndicator, ui.TableViewCell
    ]

def show():
    iitems = enumerate(items)
    for x in iitems:
        print(x)

def all():
    for a in items:
        pp.pprint((a,dir(a)))

def one(i):
    a = items[i]
    pp.pprint((a,dir(a)))

pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=3, width=46)


ins='show() displays the ui elements,\nall() prints all attrs of all ui elements,\none(i) prints attrs of element i where i is the elem number (as shown by show())'
print()
show()
print()
print(ins)

@dgm , nice short cuts. But normally your functions would return something rather than print. Or pprint. But you could turn this into a very functional class.