I came across this unexpected behaviour of getattr for new style classes. Example:
>>> class Parrot(object): ... thing = [1,2,3] ... >>> getattr(Parrot, "thing") is Parrot.thing True >>> getattr(Parrot, "__dict__") is Parrot.__dict__ False I would have expected that the object returned by getattr would be the same object as the object returned by standard attribute access. This is true for some attributes, but not for __dict__. I don't know if there are other examples. Why is this? Is there some documentation I can read up about this? I've tried searching, but can't find anything useful. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
