From a31aa45fbf57eecea909049095db23467769ac86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:10:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] #5324: document __subclasses__(). --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 5500f4fecfd..f3ff505b0bf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2674,6 +2674,17 @@ types, where they are relevant. Some of these are not reported by the The name of the class or type. + +.. method:: class.__subclasses__ + + :term:`New-style class`\ es keep a list of weak references to their immediate + subclasses. This method returns a list of all those references still alive. + Example:: + + >>> int.__subclasses__() + [] + + .. rubric:: Footnotes .. [#] Additional information on these special methods may be found in the Python