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Yasir Jan
Yasir Jan

Reputation: 558

Are there any caveats involved in using object.__class__ in python?

Are there any caveats involved in using object.__class__? for example in Django once I did this:

model_object.__class__.objects.all()

I would like to know if that's perfectly fine.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 60

Answers (2)

Waket Zheng
Waket Zheng

Reputation: 6371

Explicit is better than implicit. Just import the model class::

from .models import ModelClass

ModelClass.objects.all()

Upvotes: 2

jkwill87
jkwill87

Reputation: 678

Not necessarily. <class instance>.__class__ is a reasonable way to get class attributes or methods of an instance. There's usually some better built-in way to interact with dunder attributes and methods though-- In your case you could use type() to access .__class__ instead, e.g. type(model_object).objects.all().

Upvotes: 0

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