dir()

The dir() function returns the list of valid attributes of the passed object.

Syntax

dir(object)

• object : An empty/filled tuple, list, set, dictionary or any user-defined object.

Example

Use dir() function to return all the valid attributes of the list fruits:

fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'pineapple']

print(dir(fruits))

The following output will look like below:

['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'append', 'clear', 'copy', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']

Codebyte Example

Use dir() to return both the methods made available by default to all classes defined in Python and the user-defined properties of the class Phone:

us
Visit us
code
Hide code
Code
Output
Hide output
Hide output
Loading...
Run