[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What's the best way to traverse the web of inheritance? I want to take
> a class and traverse its bases and then the bases' bases etc
> looking for a particular class. What first came to mind was nested for
> loops. However, I want to know if there's some pre-existing method for
> doing this or if this isn't even possible (might send me in circles
> perhaps?).Thanks all.
The __mro__ descriptor does what you want. Example:
>>> class A(object):
... pass
...
>>> class B(object):
... pass
...
>>> class C(A, B):
... pass
...
>>> C.__mro__
(, , ,
)
See:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/
and
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3/mro/
for details.
Ziga
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