How to know which variables are defined?

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Is there a function that returns the name of the variables defined in a Python instance? Something similar to the command who in Matlab that returns the names of the user-defined variables.

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Yeah, I don’t know if I’d like that:

  • dir() list the variables of the specific scope
  • globals() returns global variables (which should be avoided)
  • locals() returns the function variables

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According to the Stack in English would be as follows:

  • dir() returns a list of variables in the scope
  • globals() returns a dictionary of global variables
  • locals() returns a dictionary of local variables

  • These functions serve, but it is not the way I would like because they also return everything that is set automatically and also by the imports of modules. I made a script to filter by variable type.

  • In the link in English has several different examples that may help.

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