open == file considered harmful (Re: [Python-Dev] RE:
rexec.pyunuseable)
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Dec 18 16:50:27 EST 2003
Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com>:
> The other misconception (apparently) is that the only real USE for
> accessing the __class__ attribute is for testing class membership. You
> said above that it's useful "for all sorts of reasons"... I'm
> wondering what they are.
Two that come to mind:
* Looking at the class's docstring
* Finding out what methods an object has
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