Its not obvious what you are asking here. Try inheriting from object: >>> class song(object): ... def __init__(self, name, artist, album, published): ... self.name = name ... self.artist = artist ... self.album = album ... self.published = published ... def build(self, name, artist, album, published): ... self.name = name ... self.artist = artist ... self.album = album ... self.published = published ... >>> s = song("12:51", "The Strokes", "Room on Fire", 2005) >>> dir(s) ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__weakref__', 'album', 'artist', 'build', 'name', 'published'] >>> s.__class__ <class '__main__.song'> >>> song <class '__main__.song'> >>> s.__dict__ {'album': 'Room on Fire', 'published': 2005, 'name': '12:51', 'artist': 'The Strokes'} >>> dir(s.__class__) ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__weakref__', 'build'] >>> s.build <bound method song.build of <__main__.song object at 0x403ba10c>>
On Monday 02 May 2005 05:50 pm, so sayeth Tim Henderson: > Hello > > I want to creat a program that can inspect a set of classes that i have > made and spit out a savable version of these classes. To do this I need > to be able to inspect each class and get all of its instance data as > well as information about a particular meathod. This is what i want it > to do: > > > class song: > def __init__(self, name, artist, album, published): > self.name = name > self.artist = artist > self.album = album > self.published = published > def build(self, name, artist, album, published): > self.name = name > self.artist = artist > self.album = album > self.published = published > > #now what i want to do with this dummy class > s = song("12:51", "The Strokes", "Room on Fire", 2005) > print getTextVersion(s) > > <class> > <name>song</name> > <data> > <attribute> > <date_type>string</data_type> > <value>12:51</value> > <attribute_name>name</attribute_name> > </attribute> > <attribute> > <date_type>string</data_type> > <value>The Strokes</value> > <attribute_name>artist</attribute_name> > </attribute> > <attribute> > <date_type>string</data_type> > <value>Room on Fire</value> > <attribute_name>album</attribute_name> > </attribute> > <attribute> > <date_type>int</data_type> > <value>2005</value> > <attribute_name>published</attribute_name> > </attribute> > </data> > <build_parameter_order>name artist album > published</build_parameter_order> > </class> > > > I have no idea how to do the inspection part of this little problem. I > could just have each class define its own meathod to convert to this > format, but that would be a lot of work when i could just make one > class that solves the problem for all classes. Is there a way to do > this? > > cheers > --- > Tim Henderson > mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list