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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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