Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Idlelib.rpc uses the somewhat arbitrary *strings* '__methods__' and '__attributes__' as private signals in its protocol. They are not object or attribute names, special or otherwise, in the sense used here.
The use of '__methods__' in idlelib.rpc (line 176) harkens back to pre 2.2 days when __methods__ was officially used in the type introspection api. That class attribute was "a list of method names supported by the object.". See PEP 252. Its complement was __members__, a list of non-method attributes (other than itself, I presume). rpc uses '__attributes__' instead. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23639> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
