how do I know to what module an object belongs?
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Fri Apr 14 04:27:03 EDT 2000
"Michal Wallace (sabren)" <sabren at manifestation.com> writes:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Michal Wallace (sabren) wrote:
>
> > I know I can just as easily have them pass a reference to the
> > module along with it, but I'd be happier if I could just look at the
> > connection object and know which module it came from. Can I do this?
>
> Um.. Okay....
>
> for just about every module I've tried, I can do:
>
> module = eval(dbc.__class__.__module__)
>
> ... EXCEPT for ODBC.Windows..
>
> >>> dbc
> <MS ODBC Manager Connection object at 76c3b0>
> >>> dbc.__class__
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: __class__
> >>>
>
> what gives?
Presumably dbc is not a Python class, but an extension type.
See what type(dbc).__name__ says; maybe you can special case for that?
Otherwise, I think you're hosed. I'm not sure it's a good idea;
it sounds rather fragile to me.
Cheers,
M.
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