How to list all functions in an imported module?

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Thu May 27 19:25:49 EDT 2004


Peter Abel wrote:

> klachemin at home.com (Kamilche) wrote in message news:<889cbba0.0405270506.3cd91d26 at posting.google.com>...
> 
>>I can't figure out how to list all functions from an imported module.
>>I searched Google, but all the answers I found didn't work. Did
>>something change in Python 2.2, perhaps there's a new method of doing
>>it?
> 
> 
> e.g the module os
> 
> 
>>>>import os,types
>>>>for k,v in os.__dict__.items():
> 
> ... 	if type(v) == types.BuiltinFunctionType or\
> ... 	type(v) == types.BuiltinMethodType or\
> ... 	type(v) == types.FunctionType or\
> ... 	type(v) == types.MethodType:
> ... 		print '%-20s: %r' % (k,type(v))

Yuck... wouldn't using "callable(v)" be a lot nicer?

-Peter



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