On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > This is because dir() special-cases classes, isn't it? > > Avoiding infinite recursion in dir(type) might be fun if that special > case was removed without due care and attention...
I wasn't suggeting removing the special-casing -- rather I was explaining the observed behavior. In Py3k, dir() will allow any class to makes its instances special cases by defining __dir__(). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
