iterate over class properties?

[NobahdiAtoll]

It works. The drawback is that you're going to recompute the list of properties for each instance for which you're calling this function. I only attempted to compute the list only once for each class.

So does your way import the function into every class? If so your way is better. Is there a way to extend classes globally so that you can add functions to any class you inport into your code? I only did it my way because I didn't understand what is going on completely with yours, if you can help me understand it better (exactley what's going on) i'd like to have a variation of my function available within every class, but I'm a bit squemish about not exactley knowing what's going on in my own code. I'd rather you teach me how to fish than give me a fish. I find the documentation for python isn't exactly targeted towards people like me who need a bit more explaining to know what's going on, it tends to use terminology that i don't understand and when trying to understand the terminology it references stuff i don't know much or anything about so i have to look that up and i get frustrated. Now there are sites that walk you hand in hand through python coding with easily understandable examples and dumbed-down terminology.. but only for the very simple parts of python. If you would have not pointed me to inspect, I'd have never found it.