Using kubectl, it's possible, but extremely slow to get a complete list of resources within a Kubernetes namespace. This is easy enough to do, but too slow for what I need to do.

I'd prefer to use the python or golang clients to do what kubectl is doing on my behalf. But the API docs are, well, generated by a machine, and good for nothing other than another machine :-) You'd think there'd be an example for something this simple, but alas, there isn't.

I know that using kubectl and scotch tape and bash shell that I can do the following:

#! /bin/bash

NAMESPACE=${1:-default}

kubectl get ns $NAMESPACE  > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
   echo $0: Namespace $NAMESPACE was not found >&2
   exit 1
}

for type in $(kubectl  api-resources -o name --namespaced=true --no-headers --verbs=list)
do
  for item in $(kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get $type --ignore-not-found --show-kind --no-headers -o name | grep -v events.k8s.io | grep -v event)
  do
    echo $item
  done
done

How would this be done using the very procedural python client for kubernetes?