Question

How can I get a list of which vars are defined in a class, without the classes imported in it?

vars(obj) returns all the vars in the class, excluding unwanted bliltin vars, like __doc__, __file__, __name__, __package__, os, pdb, etc.

Answer 1

You have several ways to get either the class variables or an instance variables. Leverage the coding conventions that enforce built-in functions being surrounded by double underscore chars ('__builtin__'):

class foo:
    baz = 51
    def __init__(self):
        self.bar = 42

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>>> vars(foo)
{'__doc__': None,
 '__init__': <function __init__ at 0x02A35B70>,
 '__module__': '__main__',
 'baz': 51}
>>> {k:v for k,v in vars(foo).items() if k[:2]!="__" and k[-2:]!="__"}
{'baz': 51}
>>> obj = foo()
>>> vars(obj)
{'bar': 42}