[Python-Dev] Consistency questions

[Paul Prescod]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> I don't think so.  I suspect most people use dir() interactively to see what
> attributes an object supports and would appreciate the improved
> functionality.  Besides, we are talking 2.0 here.  Nothing wrong with a
> little breakage... ;-)

I think that Thomas is right that there is going to be a fair bit of
code that manually worked around this limitation in dir and now will get
two copies of some attributes. What do you think about

attrs( foo )

It's more descriptive anyhow.
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