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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:00:24 +1000
From: John O'Hagan <research@johnohagan.com>
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Subject: Get reference to parent class from subclass?
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class P():
    pass

class C(P):
    pass

Can I get P from C? 

IOW, can I get a reference to the object P from the object C? This should be obvious one way or the other, but I haven't been able to find the answer.

Regards,

John