Python2.2 doesn't give members of a list

[Alex Martelli]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.997328534.2490.python-list at python.org...
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> The new scheme is better because more consistent and predictable, but the
> change in dir(builtin_object) is starting to look like it *may* be a bad
> incompatibility with 2.1.  Much as I hate doing it, for this reason I'm
> going to look into hacking inconsistent surprises back into dir().

It's a *GOOD* incompatibility, albeit a definite one, so might
we PRETTY PLEASE get a from-future-import hack so we can have
the right behavior for dir in the future without breaking stuff
now...?


Alex