reflection

[carlo v. dango]

Duncan Booth wrote:

many thanks for the input..



> "carlo v. dango" <dango at inc.com> wrote in news:77rbr1-
> 175.ln1 at gatekeeper.kadnet.dk:
> 
> 
>>hello there
>>
>>I have searched the documentation in vein... :(
>>
>>I would like to be able to
>>
>>a) see all classes in the runing system
> 
> 
> New style classes:
> 
> def allclasses():
>     klasses = { }
>     work = [ object ]
>     while work:
>         aType = work.pop()
>         if aType not in klasses:
>             klasses[aType] = None
>             work.extend(type.__subclasses__(aType))
>     return klasses.keys()
> 
> print allclasses()
> 
> Or for all classes, new and old:
> 
> import gc, types
> for o in gc.get_objects():
>     if type(o) in (type, types.ClassType):
>         print repr(o)
> 
> 
>>b) inspect all classse that can be found in pythonpath (to look for 
>>classes not yet made instances of / loaded)
>>
>>
>>how to perform these simple tasks?
>>
>>sincerely
>>  Carlo
> 
>