how to find available classes in a file ?

[Stef Mientki]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:13:19 -0300, Alex Popescu 
> <the.mindstorm.mailinglist 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.

thanks Gabriel, Alex and Ben.
This is indeed a good working solution,
because pyclbr also specifies in which module the class is definied.
In the other suggestions, you also get the class definitions of imported modules.

cheers,
Stef Mientki