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selective (inheriting?) dir()?

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Before I get up to my neck in gators over this, I was hoping perhaps
someone already had a solution. Suppose I have two classes, A and B,
the latter inheriting from the former:

class A:
    def __init__(self):
        self.x = 0

class B(A):
    def __init__(self):
        A.__init__(self)
        self.y = 1

inst_b = B()

Now, dir(inst_b) will list both 'x' and 'y' as attributes (along with
the various under under attributes). Without examining the source, is
it possible to define some kind of "selective" dir, with a API like

    def selective_dir(inst, class_): pass

which will list only those attributes of inst which were first defined
in (some method defined by) class_? The output of calls with different
class_ args would yield different lists:

    selective_dir(inst_b, B) -> ['y']

    selective_dir(inst_b, A) -> ['x']

I'm thinking some sort of gymnastics with inspect might do the trick,
but after a quick skim of that module's functions nothing leapt out at
me. OTOH, working through the code objects for the methods looks
potentially promising:

>>> B.__init__.im_func.func_code.co_names
('A', '__init__', 'y')
>>> A.__init__.im_func.func_code.co_names
('x',)

Thx,

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selective (inheriting?) dir()? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-04-21 09:06 -0500
  Re: selective (inheriting?) dir()? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-21 15:28 +0000
    Re: selective (inheriting?) dir()? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-04-21 10:52 -0500

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