Thanks. I just have to check in that string if method1 is from present in
subclass's __dict__ or not.
This is important for me because in my code, I am dynamically calling
methods of 2 classes where one is superclass of the other. And I was getting
duplicate results because of this problem.
-Radhakrishna
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Radhakrishna Bhat wrote:
> > I am using getattr to get a method instance from a class. But it also
> > returns methods from the superclass. How to detect if an attribute is
> > from superclass?
> >
> You could try, if x is in instance, looking to see whether the name is
> defined in x.__class__.__dict__.
>
> >>> class A:
> ... def method1(self):
> ... print "A1"
> ... def method2(self):
> ... print "A2"
> ...
> >>> class B(A):
> ... def method2(self):
> ... print"B2"
> ... def method3(self):
> ... print "B3"
> ...
> >>> a = A()
> >>> b = B()
> >>> b.method2()
> B2
> >>> b.method1()
> A1
> >>> b.method3()
> B3
> >>> b.__class__.__dict__
> {'__module__': '__main__', 'method2': <function method2 at 0x7ff1d6bc>,
> 'method3': <function method3 at 0x7ff1d3ac>, '__doc__': None}
> >>> a.__class__.__dict__
> {'__module__': '__main__', 'method2': <function method2 at 0x7ff1d064>,
> '__doc__': None, 'method1': <function method1 at 0x7ff1d6f4>}
> >>>
>
> I'd be interested to know why this is so important.
>
> regards
> Steve
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