how to find out the OO hierachy via the documentation?

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:48:24PM +1000, Leo wrote:
> hi all
> 
> newbie question: how do i find out the OO hierarchy of a class in the python
> docu?
> 
> the story: i want do play with the web server classes. so the first task
> would be a basic server with SimpleHTTPServer. in the docu i've read about
> the test() function but i couldn't find this function in the
> SimpleHTTPServer class and even not in the BaseHTTPServer class which might
> be the ancestor.
> 
> so now i'd like to walk through the OO hierarchy of SimpleHTTPServer...

The epydoc project (http://epydoc.sf.net/) has generated API docs for the
Python 2.2 standard library with this sort of info in it, e.g.:
    http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/public/SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler-class.html

-Andrew.