I'm running into some strangeness trying to work with the bitfield module from my ctypes-bitfield package (on PyPi). I'm trying to use isinstance (), and it's kinda sorta lying to me.
----- IPython session (Python 3.4 under Linux) ------- In [649]: bf.__mro__ Out[649]: (bitfield._TD, _ctypes.Union, _ctypes._CData, bitfield.Bitfield, builtins.object) In [650]: isinstance(bf, bitfield.Bitfield) Out[650]: False In [651]: bf.__bases__ Out[651]: (_ctypes.Union, bitfield.Bitfield) In [652]: bf.__bases__[1] Out[652]: bitfield.Bitfield In [653]: bf.__bases__[1] is bitfield.Bitfield Out[653]: True ------------------------------------------------------- Is there an issue with isinstance and multiple inheritance? Conversely is there an issue with isinstance and ctypes derived classes (Bitfield isn't, but Bitfield is a mixin that always works with Unions) I know that ctypes classes can get really wonky on this stuff. More generally, is there any good way to introspect ctypes derived classes? I have to figure out whether things are derived from Structure, Union, Array etc. through some ugly indirect methods, and have no idea why. -- Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com Email address domain is currently out of order. See above to fix. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list