isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes

From	Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes
Date	2015-08-26 21:21 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<mrlalj$nlt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I'm running into some strangeness trying to work with the bitfield module 
from my ctypes-bitfield package (on PyPi).  I'm trying to use isinstance
(), and it's kinda sorta lying to me.

----- IPython session (Python 3.4 under Linux) -------
In [649]: bf.__mro__
Out[649]: (bitfield._TD, _ctypes.Union, _ctypes._CData, 
bitfield.Bitfield, builtins.object)

In [650]: isinstance(bf, bitfield.Bitfield)
Out[650]: False

In [651]: bf.__bases__
Out[651]: (_ctypes.Union, bitfield.Bitfield)

In [652]: bf.__bases__[1]
Out[652]: bitfield.Bitfield

In [653]: bf.__bases__[1] is bitfield.Bitfield
Out[653]: True
-------------------------------------------------------

Is there an issue with isinstance and multiple inheritance?  Conversely 
is there an issue with isinstance and ctypes derived classes (Bitfield 
isn't, but Bitfield is a mixin that always works with Unions)  I know 
that ctypes classes can get really wonky on this stuff.

More generally, is there any good way to introspect ctypes derived 
classes?  I have to figure out whether things are derived from Structure, 
Union, Array etc. through some ugly indirect methods, and have no idea 
why.

-- 
Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com
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isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2015-08-26 21:21 +0000
  Re: isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-08-26 17:46 -0400
  Re: isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 09:12 +1000
    Re: isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2015-08-26 23:42 +0000
  Re: isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 09:14 +1000
    Re: isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-08-27 22:59 +1000
      Re: isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 00:33 +1000
        Re: isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-08-28 13:02 +1000
          Re: isinstance() and multiple inheritance/ctypes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 13:25 +1000

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