I'm +1. This bites me far too often.
> in the past developers
were encouraged to put only "useful" attributes in __dir__.
Good. If I'm getting vars() I really only want the useful ones. If I need
interesting/secret ones then I'll getattr for them.
Cheers,
Steve
Top-posted from my Windows Phone
-----Original Message-----
From: "Alexander Belopolsky" <[email protected]>
Sent: 12/12/2016 19:47
To: "Steven D'Aprano" <[email protected]>
Cc: "python-ideas" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Enhancing vars()
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
Proposal: enhance vars() to return a proxy to the object namespace,
regardless of whether said namespace is __dict__ itself, or a number of
__slots__, or both.
How do you propose dealing with classes defined in C? Their objects don't have
__slots__.
One possibility is to use __dir__ or dir(), but those can return anything and
in the past developers
were encouraged to put only "useful" attributes in __dir__.
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