[Python-Dev] No __bases__ in dir()
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Sat Mar 15 17:20:59 CET 2008
This is because dir() special-cases classes, isn't it?
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> > Why __bases__ does not appear in dir()?
> >
> > Is there a good reason for this or should I file a bug?
>
> __bases__ and several other methods like mro and __subclasses__ are
> defined on the meta class. dir() doesn't list the attributes of the meta
> class of a class.
>
>
> >>> class C(object):
> ... pass
> ...
> >>> dir(type(C))
> ['__base__', '__bases__', '__basicsize__', '__call__', '__class__',
> '__cmp__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dictoffset__', '__doc__',
> '__flags__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__itemsize__',
> '__module__', '__mro__', '__name__', '__new__', '__reduce__',
> '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__subclasses__',
> '__weakrefoffset__', 'mro']
>
> Christian
>
>
>
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