On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:51:19 +0000, Charles T. Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I get *all* the names of an object's attributes? I have legacy
> code with mixed new style classes and old style classes and I need to
> write methods which deal with both. That's the immediate problem, but
> I'm always running into the need to understand how objects are linked,
> in particular when in pdb. The answers one always sees on StackOverflow
> is that you don't need to understand, understanding is not the pythonic
> way to do things.
>
> Alternatively, is there are map documented somewhere - more complete
> than python/python-2.7.3-docs-html/library/stdtypes.html?
> highlight=class#special-attributes
>
> Or, is the code available uncompiled somewhere on my machine?
>
> Does anyone know *why* the __members__ method was deprecated, to be
> replaced by dir(), which doesn't tell the truth (if only it took an
> optional parameter to say: "be truthful")
>
> cts
Oh!
Although the referenced doc says:
"For compatibility reasons, classes are still old-style by default."
is it true that dictionaries are by default always new-style objects?
(PDB)c6 = { "abc" : 123, "def" : 456}
(PDB)isinstance (c6, dict)
True
(PDB)isinstance (c6, object)
True
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