how to find available classes in a file ?

[Alex Popescu]

On Jul 17, 4:41 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:13:19 -0300, Alex Popescu  
> <the.mindstorm.mailingl... at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > On Jul 17, 1:44 am, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nos... at mailbox.kun.nl>
> > wrote:
> >> I want to have a (dynamically) list of all classes defined in a py-file.
> >> Is there a way of getting this list, without manually parsing the file ?
>
> > I have written something that does something like this, but I am not
> > sure it is the pythonic way.
> > Bascially I am loading the module and then using dir() on the module
> > object I am looking for
> > attribute of the type classobj (for old style classes) and type type
> > (for new style classes).
>
> There is also the pyclbr standard module  
> <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pyclbr.html> that does not load the  
> module (just reparses enough of it to get the info needed). So a broken  
> import, or any other initialization error, won't hurt.
>
> > I also heard of the inspect module, but I haven't checked it yet.
>
> inspect.getmembers(the_module, inspect.isclass) would do. But this  
> requires the module to be importable.
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

I think I have figured out a difference between how my dir() based
implementation works
and the inspect.getmembers(module, inspect.isclass) works. In my
implementation only the
classes defined in the module are considered, while the inspect
functionality returns also the
imported classes. Am I seeing wrong results on this? (cause the
documentation is not very clear
about the inspect part).

./alex
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