On Dec 29, 3:50 am, "Chris Rebert" <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:26 PM, member Basu <b...@archlinux.us> wrote: > > I'm putting some utility functions in a file and then building a simple > > shell interface to them. Is their some way I can automatically get a list of > > all the functions in the file? I could wrap them in a class and then use > > attributes, but I'd rather leave them as simple functions. > > Assuming you've already imported the module as 'mod': > > func_names = [name for name in dir(mod) if callable(getattr(mod, name))] > funcs = [getattr(mod, name) for name in dir(mod) if > callable(getattr(mod, name))] > > Note that such lists will also include classes (as they too are > callable). There are ways of excluding classes (and other objects that > implement __call__), but it makes the code a bit more complicated.
No, not in general. It's a weakness of one of the strengths of Python. For instance, if you define a function in a string, or return one from another function, there's no way to get at it. If you do want to import it, you can put any executable code inside an 'if __name__== "__main__"' block, so it won't get executed while you're trying to index/catalog it. If you're interested in something more hard-core, you might like the 'tokenize' module. And I think the pattern you're looking for is 'every "def" outside a string, and even some in one.' P.S. Did not receive the original message on Google Groups. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
