get list of callable methods
exarkun at divmod.com
exarkun at divmod.com
Thu Oct 14 14:42:17 EDT 2004
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:46:15 -0500, John Hunter <jdhunter at nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> What is the best way to get a list of all functions actually defined
> in a module, ignoring those functions that the module may have
> imported but not defined?
>
> The following gets a list of all the callables, but includes functions
> that some.module imports
>
> funcs = []
> for o in dir(some.module):
> if o.startswith('_'): continue
> p = getattr(some.module, o)
> if not callable(p): continue
> funcs.append(p)
>
__all__ is the best indicator. Since not all modules define it, though, inspect.getsourcefile() is a reasonable fallback to filter things based on the file of their definition.
Jp
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