[Python-Dev] inspect() and dir()

[Ethan Furman]

On 10/09/2013 02:46 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 10 Oct 2013 03:39, "Ethan Furman" wrote:
>>
>> My apologies.  I am actually talking about the module.  I meant
>>  inspect.get_members() and inspect.classify_class_attrs(), which,
>>  as near as I can tell, are the only two functions in inspect that
>>  attempt to retrieve/look at all of an object's attributes.
>
> Those have to depend on __dir__ so classes (especially proxies) can accurately report *extra* dynamically accessible names.

Indeed, my rough idea is to use the results of the new dir() and combining that with the results of the old dir().  The 
use case being that some classes *ahem* Enum *ahem* may report *less* than is actually available, but introspection 
should reveal whatever is there even if dir() is not reporting it.

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~Ethan~