Visualize class inheritance hierarchy

[Rob Kirkpatrick]

On Sep 23, 4:58 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Rob Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > I'm assuming this has been discussed before, but I'm lacking any
> > Google keywords that bring up the appropriate discussion.
>
> You are looking for "mro" aka method resolution order. The inspect
> module contains several helper functions to inspect a class hierarchy.
>
> The following interactive session should give you an impression how to
> use the functions:
>
>  >>> import inspect
>  >>> import pprint
>  >>> from sqlalchemy.types import DateTime
>
>  >>> inspect.getmro(DateTime)
> (<class 'sqlalchemy.types.DateTime'>, <class
> 'sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine'>, <class 'sqlalchemy.types.AbstractType'>,
> <type 'object'>
>  >>> DateTime.__bases__
> (<class 'sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine'>,)
>
>  >>> pprint.pprint(inspect.getclasstree(inspect.getmro(DateTime)))
> [(<type 'object'>, ()),
>   [(<class 'sqlalchemy.types.AbstractType'>, (<type 'object'>,)),
>    [(<class 'sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine'>,
>      (<class 'sqlalchemy.types.AbstractType'>,)),
>     [(<class 'sqlalchemy.types.DateTime'>,
>       (<class 'sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine'>,))]]]]
>
>  >>> [cls for cls in inspect.getmro(DateTime) if hasattr(cls, '__init__')]
> [<class 'sqlalchemy.types.DateTime'>, <class
> 'sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine'>, <class 'sqlalchemy.types.AbstractType'>,
> <type 'object'>]
>
>  >>> [cls for cls in inspect.getmro(DateTime) if hasattr(cls, 'adapt')]
> [<class 'sqlalchemy.types.DateTime'>, <class 'sqlalchemy.types.TypeEngine'>]

Oh, yeah.  That's the stuff!