Getting a list of an object's methods?

[Jeremy Yallop]

Gerrit Holl wrote:
> Jeremy Yallop wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this isn't any better than the original idea of using
>> dir(), since inspect.getmembers is implemented using dir().  As the OP
>> noted, dir() isn't reliable.  For example, 'mro' isn't in int's dir(),
>> although it is (the name of) a method of type and in type's __dict__.
> 
> Hm, how does readline does this? I use readline and I do get 'mro'
> for an int when pressing tab:
[snip] 
> Readline appears to be implemented in C. Hmm...

Readline is indeed implemented in C, but the function which completes
the partial member names is written in Python: see the Completer class
in the rlcompleter module.  The actual implementation is rather
simple: it calls dir on the instance, its class and (recursively) its
class's bases.

The code is fairly straightforward and might at least give the OP some
ideas.

Jeremy.