What is a Python equivalent of PHP's var_dump()?

I think the best equivalent to PHP's var_dump($foo, $bar) is combine print with vars:

print vars(foo),vars(bar)

To display a value nicely, you can use the pprint module. The easiest way to dump all variables with it is to do

from pprint import pprint

pprint(globals())
pprint(locals())

If you are running in CGI, a useful debugging feature is the cgitb module, which displays the value of local variables as part of the traceback.

The closest thing to PHP's var_dump() is pprint() with the getmembers() function in the built-in inspect module:

from inspect import getmembers
from pprint import pprint
pprint(getmembers(yourObj))

PHP's var_export() usually shows a serialized version of the object that can be exec()'d to re-create the object. The closest thing to that in Python is repr()

"For many types, this function makes an attempt to return a string that would yield an object with the same value when passed to eval() [...]"