How to get a reference to current module's attributes in Python

Question

What I'm trying to do would look like this in the command line:

>>> import mymodule
>>> names = dir(mymodule)

How can I get a reference to all the names defined in mymodule from within mymodule itself?

Something like this:

# mymodule.py
names = dir(__thismodule__)

Answer 1

As previously mentioned, globals gives you a dictionary as opposed to dir() which gives you a list of the names defined in the module. The way I typically see this done is like this:

import sys
dir(sys.modules[__name__])