BrendanC wrote:
> I'm trying to understand reflection/introspection in Python. How can I
> identify the the type of attribute (e.g. instance var) in a class?
> The following returns all the class attributes (methods and instance
> vars).
>
> However I'm interested in identifying the type of value for each case
> - (e.g. I'd like to identify the instance variables separately). (The
> Inspect module has an ismethod method, but not an isinstancevariable
> method).
Because there is no such thing, as it is not a *type*. It's a question on
where the value is stored.
Every *instance* has a dictionary holding it's data. You can normally access
it using __dict__.
But it's not "pure" in the sense that only the variables you created
yourself are contained. It also contains the reference to the class.
On the class, there is also a __dict__, which contains the
method-descriptors and class-variables.
In the face of multi-inheritance, things get even more complicated, as then
the values are acquired through MRO-lookup.
> e.g. In the following example I'd like to extract the class vars
> strvar and intNum and ignore the methods/other attribute types.
>
> What is the best way to do this?
>
> class test:
> # Dummy Class for reflection testing
> strVar = '1234'
> intNum = 0
>
> def nullmethod():
> pass
>
> def addmethod(self,v1, v2):
> v = v1 + v2
> return v
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> mytest = test()
> for key in dir(mytest):
> value = getattr(object, key)
> print 'Key: %s ; Value %s ' % (str(key) ,str(value))
if name in mytest.__dict__:
print "instance variable"
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