On 06/10/2012 00:12, Ethan Furman wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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?
Well, if /you/ don't understand it I feel a lot better about not
understanding it either! :)
Glad to know I'm not missing something (besides ESP, a crystal ball, and
a mind-reader!)
~Ethan~
My probably highly uneducated guess is that "Python-provided attribute"
refers to double underscore names. YMMV by several trillion light years :)
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