[Python-Dev] Re: Story behind vars() vs .__dict__

Hello,

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 01:10:17 +1300 Greg Ewing greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:

On 22/12/20 12:36 am, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:

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Expected clarification on ".__dict__ breaking object encapsulation":

Encapsulation is not something that Python has ever been big on. There are plenty of places where implementation details are exposed, and we don't regard that as a problem.

That's still not the reason to e.g. make the value of the proverbial LOAD_METHOD opcode be available via dict type attribute, like: dict.LOAD_METHOD. Or for that matter, not the reason to provide object's internal storage via object's attribute: obj.__dict__.

But the question was about (thru-the-time) relationship of vars() vs .__dict__ ...