On Jul 22, 12:24 pm, DG <dang...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 22, 12:15 pm, DG <dang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There is probably a better way to do this (please enlighten me, if you > > know), but what I want to do is get a list of a class' attributes > > minus whatever the 'builtin' methods are. I would also like to do > > this for instances of classes as well. I don't want to use __dict__ > > because I want to get all of the attributes that have been added > > throughout the inheritance tree, just not the builtin ones. > > > I was wondering if there is a function to return a list of these, so I > > could perform a 'dir' on the object (class or instance) and filter out > > the builtin attributes. I know I could create my own list something > > like > > ['__class__', '__delattr__', ..., '__weakref__'] and use that. I > > would see this being fragile to Python version differences as new ones > > are added or taken away. > > > A more flexible way is to have the list be filled out dynamically by > > creating a 'junk' class that inherits only from object and storing > > it's dir() output into the filter list. This is probably what I'll do > > unless someone knows of a builtin function that will give me a > > (version-safe) list. > > > Thanks! > > Haha, replying to my own post. Here is the implementation of my idea > of dynamically creating the filter lists from a 'junk' object. As of > now it appears that the dir output of a class is the same as the dir > output of an instance, but if that ever changes, this should future > proof it. This is only a 4-liner, so it is probably good enough for > what I want to do, but I would rather use a builtin/standard way if > there is one. > > class A(object): > pass > class_filter_methods = dir(A) > instance_filter_methods = dir(A())
Wow, I'm a quick one. Sharp as a marble. 2-liner: class_filter_methods = dir(object) instance_filter_methods = dir(object()) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
