May 14, 2003
2:03 p.m.
Not true. That is at best an unintended side effect of slots. And there's nothing against having __slots__ include __dict__, so your instance has a __dict__ as well as slots.
That's something I never knew but wish I had known (and I *have* read the source). Live and learn.
Actually I think that's new in 2.3. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)