""" Routines for obtaining the class names of an object and its parent classes. """ from more_itertools import unique_everseen def all_bases(c): """ return a tuple of all base classes the class c has as a parent. >>> object in all_bases(list) True """ return c.mro()[1:] def all_classes(c): """ return a tuple of all classes to which c belongs >>> list in all_classes(list) True """ return c.mro() # borrowed from # http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576949-find-all-subclasses-of-a-given-class/ def iter_subclasses(cls): """ Generator over all subclasses of a given class, in depth-first order. >>> bool in list(iter_subclasses(int)) True >>> class A(object): pass >>> class B(A): pass >>> class C(A): pass >>> class D(B,C): pass >>> class E(D): pass >>> >>> for cls in iter_subclasses(A): ... print(cls.__name__) B D E C >>> # get ALL classes currently defined >>> res = [cls.__name__ for cls in iter_subclasses(object)] >>> 'type' in res True >>> 'tuple' in res True >>> len(res) > 100 True """ return unique_everseen(_iter_all_subclasses(cls)) def _iter_all_subclasses(cls): try: subs = cls.__subclasses__() except TypeError: # fails only when cls is type subs = cls.__subclasses__(cls) for sub in subs: yield sub yield from iter_subclasses(sub)