Guido van Rossum wrote: > I think that ought to go into the guidlines for what's an acceptable > __dir__ implementation. We don't try to stop people from overriding > __add__ as subtraction either.
to me, overriding dir() is a lot more like overriding id() than over- riding "+". I don't think an object should be allowed to lie to the introspection mechanisms. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
