<p>Given a Python object of any kind, is there an easy way to get the list of all methods that this object has?</p>

<p>Or,</p>

<p>if this is not possible, is there at least an easy way to check if it has a particular method other than simply checking if an error occurs when the method is called?</p>

For many objects
, you can use this code, replacing 'object' with the object you're interested in:
```
```
object_methods = [method_name for method_name in dir(object)
                  if callable(getattr(object, method_name))]
```
```
I discovered it at
diveintopython.net
(now archived), that should provide some further details!
If you get an
```
AttributeError
```
, you can use this instead
:
```
getattr()
```
is intolerant of pandas style Python 3.6 abstract virtual sub-classes.  This code does the same as above and ignores exceptions.
```
```
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame([[10, 20, 30], [100, 200, 300]],
                  columns=['foo', 'bar', 'baz'])
def get_methods(object, spacing=20):
  methodList = []
  for method_name in dir(object):
    try:
        if callable(getattr(object, method_name)):
            methodList.append(str(method_name))
    except Exception:
        methodList.append(str(method_name))
  processFunc = (lambda s: ' '.join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)
  for method in methodList:
    try:
        print(str(method.ljust(spacing)) + ' ' +
              processFunc(str(getattr(object, method).__doc__)[0:90]))
    except Exception:
        print(method.ljust(spacing) + ' ' + ' getattr() failed')

get_methods(df['foo'])
```
```