determining instance attributes

[Richie Hindle]

> how can an instance easily find out all its non-method instance attributes?

This finds all non-callable instance attributes.  That means it won't
find inner classes, but I'm guessing you didn't want those anyway:

>>> class Test:
...    def __init__( self ):
...       self.attribute = 1
...
...    def findNonMethodAttributes( self ):
...       names = []
...       for name, attribute in self.__dict__.items():
...          if not hasattr( attribute, '__call__' ):
...             names.append( name )
...       return names
...
>>>
>>> test = Test()
>>> print test.findNonMethodAttributes()
['attribute']
>>>

If you're using Python 2.x and you're a fan of list comprehensions:

def findNonMethodAttributes( self ):
   return [ name for name, attribute in self.__dict__.items() if not hasattr( attribute, '__call__' ) ]

-- 
Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com