> The end result I'm after is an automatically generated dictionary
> containing instaces of the subclasses keyed by the subclass names:
>
> {'D':D(), 'E':E(), . . . }
>
> I can see the information I need in the module's __dict__ and by using
> the dir() method, but I'm not having much success extracting it.
Use a metaclass:
subclassesofc = []
class SubclassCollector(type):
def __new__(cls, name, bases, dict):
subclassesofc.append(name)
return type.__new__(cls, name, bases, dict)
class C(object):
__metaclass__ = SubclassCollector
class A(C):
pass
print subclassesofc
Regards,
Diez
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