Extract information from Python file

Question

Say I have a python file

def ihavefile(): i = 1
def anotherfile(): pass

I want to extract all the functions from the file, like ihavefile and anotherfile . How do I do that? Do I just read the file line by line and perhaps write a regex or is there a better way?

Answer 1

Given your example:

from inspect import getmembers, isfunction, getsource

import your_module
print getmembers(your_module, isfunction)
# [('anotherfile', <function anotherfile at 0x028129B0>), ('ihavefile', <function ihavefile at 0x027F3570>)]
for name, func in getmembers(your_module, isfunction):
    print getsource(func)