Keeping track of subclasses and instances?

[Thomas Heller]

Karlo Lozovina schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> what's the best way to keep track of user-made subclasses, and instances of
> those subclasses? I just need a pointer in a right direction... thanks.
> 

New style classes have a __subclasses__ class method that shows the direct subclasses:

Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> object.__subclasses__()
[<type 'type'>, <type 'weakref'>, <type 'int'>, <type 'basestring'>, <type 'list'>, <type 'NoneType'>, ...
>>>

No builtin mechanism for instances exists, afaik.

Thomas