Properties/Decorators [WAS: Can I reference 1 instance of an object by more names ? rephrase]

[Brian van den Broek]

Peter Otten said unto the world upon 05/23/2007 01:32 PM:
> Brian van den Broek wrote:

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>> Help on built-in function apply in module __builtin__:
>>
>> But:
>>
>>  >>> [x for x in dir('__builtin__') if 'apply' in x]
>> []
>>
>> ?  If apply is in the __builtin__ module, why doesn't
>> dir('__builtin__') know about it?
> 
> The string "__builtin__" doesn't have an apply attribute; but the
> __builtin__ module has:
> 
>>>> import __builtin__
>>>> "apply" in dir(__builtin__)
> True
> 
> Peter

Doh!

Thanks Peter.