Can ask a class for its functions?

[Kevin Altis]

"Troy Melhase" <troy at gci.net> wrote in message
news:ulm3d0envo0mbe at corp.supernews.com...
> Or more list-comprehension-ly?
>
>         [x for x in clazz.__dict__.values() if callable(x)]

This almost works except that it only gives you the methods defined in the
class, it doesn't include methods from any of the superclasses.

>>> class A:
...     a = 'hello'
...     def aMethod(self):
...         print a
...
>>> [x for x in A.__dict__.values() if callable(x)]
[<function aMethod at 0x0156D8C0>]
>>> class B(A):
...     b = 'world'
...     def bMethod(self):
...         print b
...
>>> [x for x in B.__dict__.values() if callable(x)]
[<function bMethod at 0x0156AD78>]

The first use of filter Peter provides below does appear to work correctly,
picking up superclass methods.

>>> filter(callable, [getattr(B, attr) for attr in dir(B)])
[<unbound method B.aMethod>, <unbound method B.bMethod>]

It looks like you can also use that on an instance of a class. I wonder
whether these results are Python 2.2.x specific? PythonCard has been using
an elaborate method to recurse over an instance variable using __bases__ and
it would be nice to replace that.

ka

>
> Peter Hansen wrote:
>
> > Troy Melhase wrote:
> >>
> >> This doesn't work because dir() returns a list of strings, none of
which
> >> are callable.
> >>
> >> What you meant was:
> >>
> >>         filter(callable, [getattr(class_, attr) for attr in
dir(class_)])
> >
> > Or more simply?
> >
> >     filter(callable, clazz.__dict__.values())
> >
> > -Peter
>
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