How to determine which method was used in an inheritance heirarchy?

[Erik Jones]

On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:31 AM, Erik Jones wrote:

> On Jul 16, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Michele Simionato wrote:
>
>> On Jul 16, 7:18 am, Erik Jones <e... at myemma.com> wrote:
>>> On Jul 15, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Michele Simionato wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 16, 5:51 am, Erik Jones <e... at myemma.com> wrote:
>>>>> Say you're given a call event frame for a method call.  How can  
>>>>> you
>>>>> tell if the code being executed came from a super class of the  
>>>>> object
>>>>> or class the method was called on?
>>>
>>>>> Erik Jones
>>>
>>>> You look if the method was defined in self.__class__.__dict__.
>>>
>>>>        Michele Simionato
>>>
>>> That doesn't seem to cover calling super class __init__ methods.
>>>
>>
>> I am probably missing something. In the following code the
>> method check_init checks if the current instance
>> possess an __init__ or if it just inherits one
>> from the ancestors. Is this what you want?
>>
>> class B(object):
>>     def __init__(self):
>>     	'something'
>>     def check_init(self):
>>         if '__init__' in self.__class__.__dict__:
>>             print 'possesses __init__'
>>         else:
>>             print 'inherits __init__'
>>
>> class C(B):
>>     'something else'
>>     def __init__(self):
>>         print 'calling C.__init__'
>>
>> class D(B):
>>     pass
>>
>> c = C()
>> d = D()
>>
>> c.check_init() #possesses __init__
>> d.check_init() #inherits __init__
>
> Ok, I see how I was pretty vague with my original questions.    
> Given the pattern where you need to call a base class's constructor  
> (or, other overriden method of the same name as that being called  
> on the child class object):
>
> class A(object):
> 	def __init__(self):
> 		print self.__class__.__name__
>
> class B(A):
> 	def __init__(self):
> 		A.__init__(self)
> 		print self.__class__.__name__
>
> B()
>
> This will output:
>
> B
> B
>
> How can I get
>
> A
> B

Perhaps an even better example of what I'm trying to do would be in  
order (this is minus any exception handling):

import sys

def mytrace(frame, event, arg):
     if event == 'call':
         func_name = frame.f_code.co_name

         if func_name in frame.f_locals['self'].__class__.__dict__:
             print frame.f_locals['self'].__class__.__name__
         else:
             for base in frame.f_locals['self'].__class__.__bases__:
                 if func_name in base.__dict__:
                     print base.__name__
                     break


class A(object):
     def __init__(self):
         pass

class B(A):
     def __init__(self):
         A.__init__(self)

sys.settrace(mytrace)
B()

This will output:

B
B

whereas I'm shooting for:

B
A



Erik Jones

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