Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > It seems that currently inspect is geared towards instances and > classes, not metaclasses. Consequently, so is help.
I'm afraid I don't really understand what you're talking about. A metaclass is just a slightly different kind of class :-) > def classify_class_attrs(cls): > """Return list of attribute-descriptor tuples. > > For each name in dir(cls), the return list contains a 4-tuple > with these elements: [...] > We could add additional 'kind' of 'hidden class method', and 'hidden > class attributes' and then have classify_class_attrs explicitly search > metaclasses. The docstring is clear: "For each name in dir(cls)". If you want stuff that hidden's in the cls.__class__ (and, consequently, not in dir(cls)), then you are not looking for the right function, I think. I can understand wanting to better automate lookup of methods on classes, rather than on instances, but it would probably deserve another function. But I have another question first: doesn't calling classify_class_attrs() on the metaclass already do what you want? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18929> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com