Get public methods from class

get_public_methods

#!/bin/python
import operator
import inspect
_get_method_name = operator.itemgetter(0)

def get_private_methods(cls):
    def is_private(attr):
        return inspect.isbuiltin(attr) or inspect.ismethoddescriptor(attr)
    return map(_get_method_name, inspect.getmembers(cls, is_private))

def filter_attr_by_pattern(attr):
    return not attr.startswith('_')


def get_public_methods(cls, filter_underscore_prefix=True):
    public = set(map(_get_method_name, inspect.getmembers(cls, inspect.isroutine))).difference(get_private_methods(cls))
    if filter_underscore_prefix:
        public = filter(filter_attr_by_pattern, public)
    return public