Python Documentation that List all Parent and Child Class

Asked Apr 09 '20 at 21:24

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I'm a Java programmer who is working with Python. So I'm using the Typing support to increase code readability.

But I'm having a hard time with types (returning types of methods, and parents), and the documentation isn't helping in that way.

Right now I have a function returning a dict or a list, naturally I wold try Collection, or Iterable. But I would like to have access to a documentation that gives me all the direct parents and known childs of a class. (Like a Java documentation)

Is there such documentation?

edited Apr 10 '20 at 03:45

asked Apr 09 '20 at 21:24

vinicius de novaes

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There is no collection hierarchy like in Java, `dict` and `list` would share `object` first. What exactly do you expect people to do with the return type? You could also use a `typing.Union` – juanpa.arrivillaga Apr 09 '20 at 21:31
@juanpa.arrivillaga I expect them to iterate. – vinicius de novaes Apr 09 '20 at 21:35
Thanks for the `typing.Union`, didn't know that. – vinicius de novaes Apr 09 '20 at 21:37
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Then you should probably use `typing.Iterable`. Note, these act more like structural types, since being "iterable" isn't really a type, it is a protocol. – juanpa.arrivillaga Apr 09 '20 at 21:54

Python Documentation that List all Parent and Child Class

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