On 2021-06-01, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > On 1/06/21 2:34 am, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> From the outside, it's just a *data* attribute. Which, from the inside, >> it isn't. Hence "pretending". > > But what is it about the external appearance that would make > you think it's a data attribute, rather than some other kind > of attribute?
I already answered that in the post you are responding to, but you snipped it: You can tell something's definitely not a data attribute if you have to put brackets after its name to call it as a method to invoke its function or retrieve the value it returns. > (I'm assuming that by "data attribute" you mean a piece of > data that's stored directly in the object. If you mean > something else, we might be talking at cross purposes.) I mean it in the sense it is used by the Python documentation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
