I just came across a code snippet that
would define a method with the "__dict__" name - like in:
class A:
def __dict__(self):
return ()
The resulting class's instances can be assigned
dynamic attributes as usual, but one can never acess
its actual local variables through instance.__dict__ -
the method is retrieved instead. Calling "vars" will also fail
on objects of this class.
This behavior is weird, and I believe is actually a side-effect
of implementation details on CPython.
I am not sure whether it shoud just:
1 - be left as is - whoever reuses __dict__ as a method had it coming
2 - document CPythn behavior
3 - file that as a bug to disallow __dict__ override in class declaration
4 - file that as a bug to not-create class __dict__ when one is explictly
created in Python code (the same that happens when one have "__slots__".
I have the feeling that (1) is just good - but then, I am at least
posting this e-mail here.
Similar weird things go when one creates a method named "__class__",
and possible other names.
(I just checked that pypy3 mimics the behavior)
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