code: def get_plugins(directory):
      
      # not just plugin_*.py
      plugins = []
      files = glob.glob(directory + "/*.py")
      for p in files:
          p = p.replace(directory + "/", "").replace(".py", "")
          if not p.startswith('_'):
              plugins.append(p)
      # log.info("Loading Plugins from {0}".format(dir))
      # log.info("   {0}".format(str(plugins)))
      return plugins
docs: returns the list of plugins from the specified directory
      :param directory: directory that contains the plugins. Files starting with _ will be ignored.