Introspect current module to get classes

[Sean Ross]

This code seems to be doing what you're asking for, although, in this case,
I'm just accumulating a list of the names of the classes in this module, as
opposed to a list of the actual classes themselves. For the latter behaviour
just replace
    classes = [key for key, value ...
with
    classes = [value for key, value ...




import inspect

# import a class from some other module to see
# whether our filter handle it properly, i.e. ignore it
from test import MyClass

class A:
    pass

class B:
    pass


classes = [key for key,value in globals().items()
                           if inspect.isclass(value) and
value.__module__=='__main__']
print classes

"""
OUTPUTS:
    ['A', 'B']

imported class, 'MyClass', is filtered out of 'classes' by:
    value.__module__=='__main__'
"""





"Edmund" <no.spam at address.com> wrote in message
news:8g3ddvcotfltqoj7d99nvooall46h6qko5 at 4ax.com...
> I have a module that needs to do some initialization based on a list
> of classes defined in itself.
>
> There has to be a way to determine what classes are defined in a
> module (and not imported, etc.), within the module itself, but I can't
> figure out how... Can anybody help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ...Edmund.