List all base classes in a hierarchy of given class?

Question

Given a class Foo (whether it is a new-style class or not), how do you generate all the base classes - anywhere in the inheritance hierarchy -

Answer 1

Although Jochen's answer is very helpful and correct, as you can obtain the class hierarchy using the .getmro() method of the inspect module, it's also important to highlight that Python's inheritance hierarchy is as follows:

ex:

class MyClass(YourClass):

An inheriting class

• Child class
• Derived class
• Subclass

ex:

class YourClass(Object):

An inherited class

• Parent class
• Base class
• Superclass

One class can inherit from another - The class' attributed are inherited - in particular, its methods are inherited - this means that instances of an inheriting (child) class can access attributed of the inherited (parent) class

instance -> class -> then inherited classes

using

import inspect
inspect.getmro(MyClass)

will show you the hierarchy, within Python.