Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Checking the REPL first would have revealed that [].__dir__ raises > AttributeError. In other words, lists don't have a __dir__ method.
? Python 3.4.2 (default, Nov 29 2014, 00:45:45) [GCC 4.8.3] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> [].__dir__() ['sort', '__contains__', '__init__', '__ge__', 'count', '__class__', '__format__', '__mul__', 'index', '__rmul__', '__hash__', '__iter__', 'clear', '__subclasshook__', '__getitem__', 'reverse', 'append', '__ne__', 'pop', '__reduce__', '__add__', 'extend', '__gt__', '__sizeof__', '__setattr__', '__imul__', '__dir__', '__le__', 'insert', '__repr__', '__str__', '__getattribute__', '__len__', '__lt__', 'remove', '__new__', '__reduce_ex__', 'copy', '__reversed__', '__delattr__', '__eq__', '__setitem__', '__iadd__', '__doc__', '__delitem__'] >>> -- By ZeD -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
