[Zope] how to get info about an object (dir/type)

[gabor]

hi,

while working with zope, i many times have the following problem:

i find a method that i can use, and the documentation (for example) says:
"returns the current user".

ok, but what kind of object is it?
what methods does it have?

usually i would simply call dir() or type() on the result object,
but those are forbidden in zope.

how do you usually solve this?

gabor