Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> added the comment: Since the addition of __dir__, dir(obj) can return arbitrary values. Typically (I guess) this will be used to add dynamically created attributes that this function will fail to find - so it is *more* likely that we will fail to find something in dir than the reverse.
__dir__ could also be used to filter non-public members that getattr(...) would find. I would find it odd that getattr finds a member that exists but this function fails. I think this function is more akin to getattr than dir. Perhaps a better warning would be that this function may fail to find members that getattr finds? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9732> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
