[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a library in which I need to find the names of methods > which are implemented in a class, rather than inherited from another > class. To explain more, and to find if there is another way of doing > it, here is what I want to do: I am defining two classes, say A and B, > as: > > class A(object): > def list_cmds(self): > 'implementation needed' > ? > def __init__(self): > ... (rest of class) > > class B(A): > def cmd1(self, args): > pass > def cmd2(self, args): > pass > > I need an implementation of list_cmds in A above so that I can get a > result: > > >>> b=B() > >>> b.list_cmds() > ['cmd1','cmd2'] #order not important > > I will be happy if anybody can point to me any way of doing it, using > class attributes, metaclasses or otherwise. What I don't want to do is > modifying class B, which contains just the cmds, if possible. > > Many thanks in advance. > > k
I'd rather have it as a function, not attached to a specific class: from inspect import getmembers, ismethod def listMethods(obj): d = obj.__class__.__dict__ return [name for name,_ in getmembers(obj,ismethod) if name in d] HTH, George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list