Question

Let’s say I have a file called example.py with the following content:

def func_one(a):
    return 1

def func_two(b):
    return 2

def func_three(b):
    return 3

How would I get a list of function instances for that file? I have tried playing with the compiler,parser and ast modules but I can’t really figure it out. It might be a lot easier than that, but it’s slightly out of my depth.

EDIT: To be clear I don’t want to import the functions.

Answer 1

You can use inspect module:

>>> import inspect
>>> import example
>>> inspect.getmembers(example, inspect.isroutine)
[('func_one', <function func_one at 0x0238CBB0>), ('func_three', <functi
three at 0x0240ADB0>), ('func_two', <function func_two at 0x0240ADF0>)]