New submission from Julien: I spotted un undocumented term here : https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/functions.html#vars
in: "Objects such as modules and instances have an updateable __dict__ attribute; however, other objects may have write restrictions on their __dict__ attributes (for example, classes use a dictproxy to prevent direct dictionary updates)." The term "dictproxy" is not documented anywhere in the documentation, I assume it's a https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/types.html#types.MappingProxyType, which is right: >>> class Foo(): ... pass ... >>> vars(Foo) mappingproxy({'__doc__': None, '__weakref__': <attribute '__weakref__' of 'Foo' objects>, '__dict__': <attribute '__dict__' of 'Foo' objects>, '__module__': '__main__'}) So I propose a patch to link to it via a :class:`dictproxy <types.MappingProxyType>`. Should we leave "dictproxy" or change it to "mappingproxy" ? ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: dictproxy.patch keywords: patch messages: 261665 nosy: docs@python, sizeof priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Undocumented use of the term dictproxy in vars() documentation type: enhancement Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42152/dictproxy.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26547> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
