How to list currently defined classes, methods etc

[Kent Johnson]

Deep wrote:
> I have been looking a bit and am stuck at this point.
> 
> Given a string, how do i find what is the string bound to.
> Let me give an example.
> 
> def deep():
>      print "Hello"
> 
> now inspect.ismethod(deep) returns true. (As it should).
> But if I am trying to make a list of all bound methods), i use
> dir(), which is a list of strings. I get the string "deep" from this
> list.

Look it up in the globals() dict:
 >>> def deep():
 ...   print 'Hello'
 ...
 >>> globals()['deep']
<function deep at 0x008ECF70>

> How do I obtain the reference to the method it is bound to.
> The same problem can be extended to attributes and classes.

Use getattr() to inspect classes and instances:
 >>> class deeper:
 ...   def deepest(self):
 ...     print 'goodbye'
 ...
 >>> getattr(deeper, 'deepest')
<unbound method deeper.deepest>
 >>> d=deeper()
 >>> getattr(d, 'deepest')
<bound method deeper.deepest of <__main__.deeper instance at 0x00A41350>>

Kent