As mentioned on SE one can get all the iterable properties of an object with either dir(someObject) or someObject.__dict__. How does one get the non-iterable properties? Some libraries, such as Reqests, return objects with non-iterable properties.
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It's impossible to list all attributes reliably in every circumstance, for the simple fact that attributes can be defined at runtime using __getattr__ or __getattribute__.
For example the following class has a 50% chance to create a new attribute or to raise an AttributeError.
import random class AttributeGenerator(object): def __getattr__(self, attr): if random.random() < 0.5: setattr(self, attr, None) return getattr(self, attr) else: raise AttributeError(attr) The only general-purpose functions to get attributes from an instance are dir() and vars().
Note that dir() by default combines the result obtained by __dict__, __slots__ and the class' __dict__ etc. Classes can redefine how dir() works on their instances by defining the __dir__ method, however I've never seen it used. If this method exists and "hides" some attributes for some reason you can simply do something like:
attributes = list(object.__dict__.keys()) + list(obj.__slots__) + list(type(obj).__dict__) (with the appropriate error checking!) in order to obtain the default's dir() output.
This said, if you are interested in a particular library then there might be some method specific for that library that works reliably.
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import pprint from pprint pprint (vars(<object name>)) 
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dotancohen
Thank you Monty. However, the non-iterable attributes are not exposed with
vars().