List all base classes in a hierarchy of given class?

Solution 1:

inspect.getmro(cls) works for both new and old style classes and returns the same as NewClass.mro(): a list of the class and all its ancestor classes, in the order used for method resolution.

>>> class A(object):
>>>     pass
>>>
>>> class B(A):
>>>     pass
>>>
>>> import inspect
>>> inspect.getmro(B)
(<class '__main__.B'>, <class '__main__.A'>, <type 'object'>)

Solution 2:

See the __bases__ property available on a python class, which contains a tuple of the bases classes:

>>> def classlookup(cls):
...     c = list(cls.__bases__)
...     for base in c:
...         c.extend(classlookup(base))
...     return c
...
>>> class A: pass
...
>>> class B(A): pass
...
>>> class C(object, B): pass
...
>>> classlookup(C)
[<type 'object'>, <class __main__.B at 0x00AB7300>, <class __main__.A at 0x00A6D630>]

Solution 3:

inspect.getclasstree() will create a nested list of classes and their bases. Usage:

inspect.getclasstree(inspect.getmro(IOError)) # Insert your Class instead of IOError.

Solution 4:

you can use the __bases__ tuple of the class object:

class A(object, B, C):
    def __init__(self):
       pass
print A.__bases__

The tuple returned by __bases__ has all its base classes.