I want to give a path in the command argument while running main.py, and the main.py should display all the functions that are present in the .py file mentioned in the path.
main.py
getpathfromargument = /some/path/file.py
print(functions_present_in(getpathfromargument)
the path not necessarily be in the same directory as main.py
I might run this as follows
$python main.py /some/path/file.py
to access the function from main.py do I have to import the file in the path?
If I understand your question correctly, you want to take a argument which is a path to a python file and print the functions present in that file.
I would go about doing that like:
from inspect import getmembers, isfunction
from sys import argv
from shutil import copyfile
from os import remove
def main():
foo = argv[1] # Get the argument passed while executing the file
copyfile(foo, "foo.py") # Copy the file passed in the CWD as foo.py
import foo
print(getmembers(foo, isfunction)) # Print the functions of that module
remove("foo.py") # Remove that file
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
This will copy the file passed in to the CWD (Current Working Directory), import it and print the functions inside it and then remove the copy of the file which was just made in the CWD.
Use import as you would with built-in modules:
import file as f
print(dir(f))
python3 main.py /path/to/file so this woudn't work.
dir. For example, if your class name isMyRandomClass, thendir(MyRandomClass)will print methods in it.