get all subclasses of a class

[Emile van Sebille]

phil hunt
> (1) I don't know how to get a list of all the subclasses of Foo. Is
this
> possible in Python? I know I could just make a list:
>
>    subclassesOfFoo = (Bar, Bar2, Bar3)
>
> but that seems a bit inelegant.
>

How about:


class Foo: #abstract superclass
    def useThisClass(self, type):
       return 0 # Foo is abstract, so we never create any instances of
it

class Bar(Foo): pass

class Bar2(Foo): pass

class Bar3(Bar2): pass

def testfooness(arg):
    try: return issubclass(arg, Foo) and arg != Foo
    except: return None

subclassesOfFoo = [ sc[0] for sc in vars().items() if
testfooness(sc[1]) ]


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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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