>> > It could be that the result overloads the __getattr__-method to delegate >> > calls to some object. Thus it's not part of the outer instance. >> > > Didn't I read that Py3 will support a __dir__ method so that classes > *could* report such pseudo-attributes in response to dir? > > -- Paul
I don't believe that it possibly could: class foo(object): def __getattr__(self, what): if what[0] == 't': return True f = foo() print f.toby ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list