Append all methods of a class in a list in Python

Question

I would like to add all methods of a class to a list so I can use them to call those methods from that list. I have tried inspect.getmembers(class) , but I don't know how I would use it to call a function or subclass

Answer 1

Assuming you have a class Abc :

class Abc:
    def user_function(arg):
        print(arg)

You can get all it's methods with dir(Abc) . By calling it, you will get magic methods as well ( __init__ , __str__ and so on). So you can filter it like that:

methods_names = [method for method in dir(Abc) if not method.startswith('__')]

If you want to call it, you can use getattr :

first_method = getattr(Abc, methods_names[0])

Note that first_method will expect two arguments: self and arg , where self can be an instance of Abc class. So:

instance = Abc()
first_method(instance, 'Hello world')