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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-01-06 15:48:20 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-01-06 15:48:20 (GMT)
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#759525: document that dir() doesn't return metaclass attrs when given a class as arg.
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@@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ Note:
name. If the optional *predicate* argument is supplied, only members for which
the predicate returns a true value are included.
+ .. note::
+
+ :func:`getmembers` does not return metaclass attributes when the argument
+ is a class (this behavior is inherited from the :func:`dir` function).
+
.. function:: getmoduleinfo(path)