Why is it that you can setattr() on an instance of a class that inherits from "object", but you can't on an instance of "object" itself?
>>> o = object() >>> setattr(o, "x", 1000) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'x' >>> class Object(object):pass ... >>> o = Object() >>> setattr(o, "x", 1000) >>> o.x 1000 I notice that the first example's instance doesn't have a __dict__. Is the second way the idiom? ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
