Lie wrote:
On Jun 9, 10:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All.
In a complex inheritance hierarchy, it is sometimes difficult to find
where a
method is defined. I thought it might be possible to get this info
from the
method object itself, but it looks like maybe not. Here is the test
case I tried:
class A(object):
def method():
pass
class B(A):
pass
a = A()
b = B()
print a.method
print b.method
Since B inherits method from A, I thought that printing b.method might
tell
me that the definition is in A, but no. Here's the output:
<bound method A.method of <__main__.A object at 0xb7d55e0c>>
<bound method B.method of <__main__.B object at 0xb7d55e2c>>
This in indistinguishable from the case where B overrides method.
So, is there any way to inspect a method to see where (in what class)
it
is defined?
You might try the inspect module. It can give you lots of information
about a method (even including the file name and line number where it
was defined). Poke around and perhaps you can find exactly what you are
looking for.
Gary Herron
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