Question

Given an object myObject, I do

print dir(myObject)

This will dump variable and method names. How can I distinguish which are variables, and which are methods?

Answer 1

You can recognize methods using types.MethodType:

In [1]: class A:
   ...:     def __init__(self):
   ...:         self.x = 2
   ...:     def f(self):
   ...:         return 1

In [2]: a=A()

In [3]: import types

In [4]: isinstance(a.f, types.MethodType)
Out[4]: True

Note: Static methods are of type types.FunctionType.

Update: So to get all the function names, you can do

In [5]: [name for name in dir(a) if isinstance(getattr(a, name), types.MethodType)]
Out[5]: ['__init__', 'f']