How to get the function names of functions in a separate file?

Question

I am creating a chatbot that has 2 main files, main.py which runs the bot and commands.py which contains the commands the bot recognizes. I am trying to get the function names from commands.py in order to use that information (as a simple string/store as a variable) in main.py. For example:

commands.py

def add():
    pass

def delete():
    pass

def change():
    pass

Basically, I want to be able to store in a variable commands = ['add', 'delete', 'change'] or something similar. I don't have any experience with decorators, but is this possibly a good time to use it? To be able to register commands with a decorator? I'm open to any suggestions, thanks!

Answer 1

IIUC,

import commands

>>> dir(commands)
['__builtins__',
 '__cached__',
 '__doc__',
 '__file__',
 '__loader__',
 '__name__',
 '__package__',
 '__spec__',
 'add',
 'delete',
 'change']

Then filter out the magic attrs

>>> function_names = [func for func in dir(commands) if not func.startswith('__')]

['add', 'delete', 'change']