Add a function to compute a class's method resolution order. This is

easy for 2.2 new-style classes, but trickier for classic classes, and
different approaches are needed "depending".  The function will allow
later code to treat all flavors of classes uniformly.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex b/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex
index e5ec9ca..24a181a 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libinspect.tex
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ you can expect to find the following special attributes:
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{formatargspec}{args\optional{, varargs, varkw, defaults,
       argformat, varargsformat, varkwformat, defaultformat}}
-  
+
   Format a pretty argument spec from the four values returned by
   \function{getargspec()}.  The other four arguments are the
   corresponding optional formatting functions that are called to turn
@@ -253,6 +253,14 @@ you can expect to find the following special attributes:
   names and values into strings.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{getmro}{cls}
+  Return a tuple of class cls's base classes, including cls, in
+  method resolution order.  No class appears more than once in this tuple.
+  Note that the method resolution order depends on cls's type.  Unless a
+  very peculiar user-defined metatype is in use, cls will be the first
+  element of the tuple.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \subsection{The interpreter stack
             \label{inspect-stack}}