Awesome! I didn't see the getmro function in inspect - that'll do the trick for me. I should be able to just look up the methodname in each of the class's __dict__ attributes.
vic On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:29:25 +0100, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victor Ng wrote: > > > I'm doing some evil things in Python and I would find it useful to > > determine which class a method is bound to when I'm given a method > > pointer. > > > > For example: > > > > class Foo(object): > > def somemeth(self): > > return 42 > > > > class Bar(Foo): > > def othermethod(self): > > return 42 > > > > > > Is there some way I can have something like : > > > > findClass(Bar.somemeth) > > > > that would return the 'Foo' class, and > > > > findClass(Bar.othermethod) > > > > would return the 'Bar' class? > > > > vic > > >>> import inspect > >>> class Foo(object): > ... def foo(self): pass > ... > >>> class Bar(Foo): > ... def bar(self): pass > ... > >>> def get_imp_class(method): > ... return [t for t in inspect.classify_class_attrs(method.im_class) if > t[-1] is method.im_func][0][2] > ... > >>> [get_imp_class(m) for m in [Bar().foo, Bar().bar, Bar.foo, Bar.bar]] > [<class '__main__.Foo'>, <class '__main__.Bar'>, <class '__main__.Foo'>, > <class '__main__.Bar'>] > > but with this approach you will get into trouble as soon as you are using > the same function to define multiple methods. There may be something in the > inspect module more apt to solve the problem -- getmro() perhaps? > > Peter > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
