[Python-Dev] inspect and metaclasses

[R. David Murray]

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:59:02 -0700, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 09/06/2013 08:44 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:14:09 -0700, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> >> On 09/06/2013 07:47 AM, Armin Rigo wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Are you suggesting that inspect.getmro(A) would return (A, object,
> >>> type)?  That seems very wrong to me.
> >>
> >> Currently, `inspect.getmro(A)` returns `(A, object)`.
> >
> > Which matches A.__mro__.  EOD, I think.
> 
> I hope not, because currently this leaves a hole in the introspection of class attributes.
> 
> Is __mro__ aimed primarily at instances and not classes?  That seems to be how it works.  In which case, do we need 
> another __mmro__ (or __cmro__ or ...) to handle the mro of classes themselves?

Or maybe just a new inspect function?

> For the short term I can restrict the change to inspect.classify_class_attrs().

Sounds like the best course.

--David