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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-06 15:48:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-06 15:48:20 (GMT) |
| commit | 91a4808aa8a0d5878a2e2d6cfa56fda7afb53233 (patch) | |
| tree | cb35d9c5d2a4b1c6a83bbef6a0644e6e9c24b4fe /Doc | |
| parent | db210dfba28524935a61959c2edf96496d33bf19 (diff) | |
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#759525: document that dir() doesn't return metaclass attrs when given a class as arg.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/inspect.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 6720f19..4f86fc7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -302,7 +302,8 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. Because :func:`dir` is supplied primarily as a convenience for use at an interactive prompt, it tries to supply an interesting set of names more than it tries to supply a rigorously or consistently defined set of names, and its - detailed behavior may change across releases. + detailed behavior may change across releases. For example, metaclass attributes + are not in the result list when the argument is a class. .. function:: divmod(a, b) diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst index fbc9d04..c1f0f00 100644 --- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst +++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst @@ -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) |