from bitshares.asset import Asset
print(dict(Asset('USD')))
For listing assets, i believe there is no call in pybitshares yet. But you could call any rpc call thru the lib directly to by using
BitShares().rpc.CALLNAME()
The callname for listing asset however, i cannot remember
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