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"""
Dynamic importing help
"""
[docs]def getEntireFamilyTree(cls):
"""Returns a list of classes subclassing the input class
One large caveat is it can only locate subclasses that had been imported somewhere
Look to use importEntirePackage before searching for subclasses if not all children
are being found as expected.
"""
return cls.__subclasses__() + [
grandchildren
for child in cls.__subclasses__()
for grandchildren in getEntireFamilyTree(child)
]