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Python The proper way of class accessing subclass' attributes

karababarabas

New Coder
I'd like to ask somebody experienced in Django (or Python in general), how e.g. ModelSerializer accesses attributes created by me? How does it know about my class?
I mean django code was written months/years before mine code and in this particular class I'm not calling any method or anything, it's just declaration:

Python:
class StatSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
      model = Stats
      fields = '__all__'

I know what it does, and it works for me, I'd like to know how exactly.
I can do something like this:

Python:
class A:
    def __init__(self):
        print(A.__subclasses__()[0].Meta.agreedField)

class B(A):
    class Meta:
        agreedField = 1

A()
# output: 1

The same principle and it works as well.

But Django doesn't apply that approach. I googled meta classes, also I read through django rest_framework - serializers.py but I was not able to get the concept how this:

class StatSerializer(SomeParent):
class Meta:
model = "my model"


can serve as an input for something else (parent class). Can you write class SomeParent that would print "my model" (get access of that attribute) and not using __subclasses__ as I did above?
Thanks.
 
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