[Python-ideas] Enhancing vars()

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> Proposal: enhance vars() to return a proxy to the object namespace,
> regardless of whether said namespace is __dict__ itself, or a number of
> __slots__, or both.
>

How do you propose dealing with classes defined in C?  Their objects don't
have __slots__.

One possibility is to use __dir__ or dir(), but those can return anything
and in the past developers
were encouraged to put only "useful" attributes in __dir__.
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