How to find the parent of an old-style class?

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Apr 24, 7:16 am, Jasper <jas... at peak.org> wrote:
> I'm stuck using a library based on old style classes, and need to find
> a class's parent at runtime.
>
> With new style classes you can use .__base__ to inspect a parent, but
> I can't remember how this was done in days of yore, before object.
> I've tried googling, but apparently my search term Fu is weak. :-(
>
> Can anyone help me out here?  There must be something simple.
>

It's very odd that you need to know a class's parent. I'm interested
in hearing why you need this. In all my years, I've never had to do
this.

Regardless, I believe you are looking for __bases__.