In a Python object, how can I see a list of properties that have been defined with the @property decorator?

Question

I can see first-class member variables using self.__dict__, but I\'d like also to see a dictionary of properties, as defined with the @property decorator. How

Answer 1

You could add a function to your class that looks something like this:

def properties(self):
    class_items = self.__class__.__dict__.iteritems()
    return dict((k, getattr(self, k)) 
                for k, v in class_items 
                if isinstance(v, property))

This looks for any properties in the class and then creates a dictionary with an entry for each property with the current instance's value.