How to find methods or attributes of an object?

• Built-in dir() function of Python ,on an instance shows the instance variables as well as the methods and class attributes defined by the instance’s class and all its base classes alphabetically.
• So by any object as argument to dir() we can find all the methods & attributes of the object’s class.

Following code snippet shows dir() at work :

class Employee:

def __init__(self,name,empCode,pay):

self.name=name

self.empCode=empCode

self.pay=pay

print("dir() listing all the Methods & attributes of class Employee")

print dir(e)

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Output

dir() listing all the Methods & attributes of class Employee

[ '__init__', 'empCode', 'name', 'pay']