On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:39:53 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: > There is a StackOverflow question [1] that points to this on-line book > [2] which has a five-step sequence for looking up attributes: > > > When retrieving an attribute from an object (print > > objectname.attrname) Python follows these steps: > > > > 1. If attrname is a special (i.e. Python-provided) attribute for > > objectname, return it. [...] > I'm thinking step 1 is flat-out wrong and doesn't exist. Does anybody > know otherwise?
I'm thinking I don't even understand what step 1 means. What's a Python-provided attribute, and how is it different from other attributes? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list