how to flatten class trees?

[Shae Erisson]

Harry George wrote:
> 
> I have a collection of classes with lots of inheritance (so far only
> single inheritance; maybe multiple in the future).  It is hard to
> remember where a given data member or method is defined.  I want to
> print out, for each class, all the data members and where they were
> defined.  E.g.:

<snip>

> Is there a service/tool/script/module already available to do this?
> If not, would you recommend working from __dict__ or from "parser" to
> do it?

pyclbr.py (python class browser) from IDLE might work for you. You
should get the latest non-CVS version of IDLE as the 2.0 beta version in
the CVS tree is broken.
There's also a structure browser in the python-mode for (x)emacs, but
I'm pretty sure it's written in elisp.
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