If I select a face of a cube and switch over to the internal Python console and pass:

bpy.context.selected_objects

I get:

[bpy.data.objects['Cube']]

instead of something like [bpy.data.objects['Cube'].f[1]].

Coming from Maya I was looking for something like:

import pymel.core as pc

print pc.ls(sl=True)

which in the above case would return the face id.

Same thing applies for vertices and edges.

How can I go about getting a detailed selection list programmatically?