List all attributes which are inherited by a class

Question

Hi I have the below from which I am trying to pull data from Outlook using code obtained on StackOverflow.

Using the first loop, I am trying to gather all attributes available to the object.

Whilst running it I notice the absence of Name which is later called in the 2nd loop, I assume this is due to inheritance. Please can you assist me in finding all attributes available to a class?

import win32com.client,sys

o = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Outlook.Application")
ns = o.GetNamespace("MAPI")

adrLi = ns.AddressLists.Item("Global Address List")
contacts = adrLi.AddressEntries
numEntries = adrLi.AddressEntries.Count
print(type(contacts))
nameAliasDict = {}
attrs_ = dir(contacts)
for i in range(len(attrs_)):
    print((attrs_[i]))

for j in contacts:
    print(j.Name)

    sys.exit()

Answer 1

Python provides a handy little builtin called dir. I can use that on a class instance to get a list of all the attributes and methods of that class along with some inherited magic methods, such as __delattr__, __dict__, __doc__, __format__, etc. You can try this yourself by doing the following:

x = dir(myClassInstance)

but what you want is:

child.__class__.__bases__[0]().getAttributes()

__bases__ is a class attribute containing tuple of base classes for this class. so if your class has only one base class, this is the answer, but if class has more than one base class, just do same for all elements from that tuple.