On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:03:17 +0100, bruno at modulix wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> I came across this unexpected behaviour of getattr for new style classes. >> Example: >> >> >>>>>class Parrot(object): >> >> ... thing = [1,2,3] >> ... >> >>>>>getattr(Parrot, "thing") is Parrot.thing >> >> True >> >>>>>getattr(Parrot, "__dict__") is Parrot.__dict__ >> >> False > > > hint: >>>> getattr(object, '__dict__') > <dictproxy object at 0x2aaaaab2ff30>
That doesn't answer the question, it just re-words it. Why is the dictproxy returned by getattr a different instance from the dictproxy that you get when you say object.__dict__? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
