On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:45:39PM -0500, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > 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__.
I don't see any clean way to do so. Maybe we should have a convention that such objects provide a __slots__ attribute listing public attributes, but I'm not too concerned. Let vars(weird_c_object) raise TypeError, just as it does now. > 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__. Indeed. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
