Ramashish Baranwal wrote: > Hi, > > I want to get a module's contents (classes, functions and variables) > in the order in which they are declared. Using dir(module) therefore > doesn't work for me as it returns a list in alphabetical order. As an > example- > > # mymodule.py > class B: pass > class A: pass > class D: pass > > # test.py > import mymodule > # This returns['A', 'B', 'D', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', > '__name__'] > contents = dir(mymodule) > > I want a way to get the contents in the order of their declaration, > i.e. [B, A, D]. Does anyone know a way to get it?
Whatfor do you actually need this? Is it a general interest - then things get difficult. But for certain usecases, metaclasses might come to the rescue. But that depends on what you want to do. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
