On 1/24/2015 5:16 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
Consider the following code at your REPL of choice
class Sub:
pass
foo = Sub()
Sub.__bases__
foo.__bases__
The last statement originates the following error:
This is an anomalous situation. Normally, if a class has an attribute,
instances have the same attribute (unless overriden). But this does not
matter.
AttributeError: 'Sub' object has no attribute '__bases__'
In this message, 'Sub' is an adjective, modifying 'object, not naming
it. If you attend to the last line of the traceback
foo.__bases__
which is an integral part of the total error message, the interpretation
of this exception message should be clear.
AttributeError: 'Sub' instance has no attribute '__bases__',
'Sub' is an instance of 'type', so "'Sub' instance" could also be taken
to mean the class if the traceback were ignored. But that would also be
wrong. An attribute error for the class, such as "Sub.xyz" give a
message ending with
...
Sub.xyz
AttributeError: type object 'Sub' has no attribute 'xyz'
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