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CutePoison
CutePoison

Reputation: 5355

Create a dictionary with all functions from a file

Say I have a file functions.py containing

def some_function():
   return "something"

def some_other_function():
    return "something else"

I'm trying to create a dictionary in another file, load_functions.py, with keys being the function-names from functions.py and the items being the actual function e.g:

import functions
useable_functions = [f for f in dir(functions) if "__" not in f] #Get all functions to be used
function_dict = TO_BE_IMPLEMENTED
print(function_dict)

#{"some_function":some_function,
#"some_other_function":some_other_function}

func = function_dict["some_function"]
func()
# "something"

Is it by all means doable?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 971

Answers (1)

Icebreaker454
Icebreaker454

Reputation: 1071

Take a look at the inspect module.

Say you have your functions.py module. To get all functions from it, use this:

import inspect

import functions  # your module

elements = inspect.getmembers(functions, inspect.isfunction)
element_dict = dict(elements)

The call will return all the function members of the functions.py module as a list of (name, value) pairs sorted by name. Note it will also include lambdas.

Then, I use dict() to convert the (name, value) pairs to a dict.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html

Upvotes: 3

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