Determine an object is a subclass of another

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

On 9 Jan 2007 07:01:31 -0800, abcd <codecraig at gmail.com> wrote:
> anyways, is there a way to check without having an instance of the
> class?

In [1]: class A:
   ...:     pass
   ...:

In [2]: class B(A):
   ...:     pass
   ...:

In [3]: issubclass(B, A)
Out[3]: True

In [4]: isinstance(B(), B)
Out[4]: True

In [5]: isinstance(B(), A)
Out[5]: True

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Felipe.