OK, now *this* is cool

[Bruce Eckel]

I think so, at least. Based on Tim's pointer about __subclasses__()
in 2.2, I can automatically generate an instance of all of my
subclasses.

class Flower(object):  
  def __repr__(self): 
    return self.__class__.__name__

class Gladiolus(Flower): pass
class Runuculus(Flower): pass
class Chrysanthemum(Flower): pass
class Rose(Flower): pass
class CrystalPassion(Rose): pass

print [Klass() for Klass in Flower.__subclasses__()]

Output:
[Gladiolus, Runuculus, Chrysanthemum, Rose]

Note that you'd have to do a recursive call to get all the classes
in the tree, as __subclasses__() only goes one level down.

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