[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-486144 ] Uninitialized __slot__ vrbl is None

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Bugs item #486144, was opened at 2001-11-27 11:51
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Category: Type/class unification
Group: Python 2.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: Uninitialized __slot__ vrbl is None

Initial Comment:
>>> class C(object):
...     __slots__ = ['a']
...
>>> c = C()
>>> print c.a
None
>>>

Nothing else in Python works like this -- a (possibly 
subclass of) NameError exception would be better.

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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-11-27 18:45

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While this is not normal for class instances, built-in types
have long had this behavior -- if a built-in type has an
object pointer attribute described by a structmember with
code T_OBJECT, it has this behavior (NULL is treated as None
rather than absent attribute).

I propose to add a T_OBJECT_EX structmember code, which
raises an exception for NULL instead of returning None. This
can then be used by the __slots__ code in typeobject.c.

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