Is there a library or a python magic that allows me to execute all functions in a file without explicitly calling them. Something very similar to what pytest is doing - running all functions that start with 'test_...' without ever registering them anywhere.
For example assume I have a file a.py:
def f1(): print "f1" def f2(): print "f2" and assume I have file - my main file - main.py:
if __name__ == '__main__': some_magic() so when I call:
python main.py The output would be:
f1 f2 Here's a way:
def some_magic(): import a for i in dir(a): item = getattr(a,i) if callable(item): item() if __name__ == '__main__': some_magic() dir(a) retrieves all the attributes of module a. If the attribute is a callable object, call it. This will call everything callable, so you may want to qualify it with and i.startswith('f').
Here's another way:
#!/usr/local/bin/python3 import inspect import sys def f1(): print("f1") def f2(): print("f2") def some_magic(mod): all_functions = inspect.getmembers(mod, inspect.isfunction) for key, value in all_functions: if str(inspect.signature(value)) == "()": value() if __name__ == '__main__': some_magic(sys.modules[__name__]) It will only call functions that don't have any parameters by using inspect.signature(function).
Have you tried callifile?
pip install callifile and then, in your file:
from callifile.callifile import callifile as callifile import sys callifile(module=sys.modules[__name__], verbose=True) In a file some_callify.py:
from callifile.callifile import callifile as callifile import sys def f_1(): print "bla" callifile(module=sys.modules[__name__], verbose=True) Calling in terminal:
python some_callify.py Gives me the terminal output:
Apply call_all_function_in_this_file on <module '__main__' from 'some_callify.py'> See if should call callifile See if should call f_1 Call f_1 bla 
inspectmodule in the standard library.