dir() shows strange behaviour with VPython

[Alex Martelli]

Gregor Lingl wrote:

> What a surprise to come into contact with martellibot just
> after having read your interview on the Euro Python website.

Pleased to meet you!  I shouldn't be here (don't tell my
O'Reilly editor I'm writing on c.l.py when I should be
busy finishing the Nutshell book...), but...


> I'm working with Python 2.2.1 on a Windows2000 machine.

I have not tried VPython anywhere except on Linux, where
I just tried reproducing your problem -- as I said, it's
slightly different there.

> Curious if something similar would happen on my machine
> I just deinstalled Visual-2002-06-14 and replaced it by
> Visual-2002-07-07 and I obtain exactly the same results
> as before - the session remaining alive...
> 
> Let's see, if somebody else will give us more information
> on this ...

I think you should forward a copy of these exchanges (or
a pointer to them via google advanced group search) to
the VPython guys -- I'm sure they'll be able to debug and
fix the problem very simply, while it would take longer
for somebody utterly unfamiliar with VPython's internals,
such as yours truly...


Alex