How to find out which functions exist?

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Wed Oct 24 11:41:03 EDT 2007


On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:09:02 +0000, mrstephengross wrote:

>> import module
>> from inspect import getmembers, isclass
>> classes = getmembers(module, isclass)
> 
> Ok, this makes sense. How can I do it inside the .py file I'm working
> on? That is, consider this:
> 
>   class A:
>     pass
>   class B:
>     pass
>   import inspect
>   print inspect.getmembers(<this file>, inspect.isclass) # how can I
> express <this file> ?

If you want the objects from the current module you can simply look at the
`globals()` dictionary.

from inspect import isclass
from itertools import ifilter

classes = set(ifilter(isclass, globals().itervalues()))

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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