Accessing class instance variables with vars().

[Anton Muhin]

Arcady Genkin wrote:
> How would I make the following code print both class variable 'foo'
> and the local variable 'bar' through a variable mapping?
> 
> class A:
>     foo = 1
>     def show( self ):
>         bar = 2
>         print '%(foo)d %(bar)d' % vars(self)
> 
> This does not work since vars(self) returns an empty dictionary.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,

There might be minor bug: note that bar *isn't* member of an instance, 
it's just a temporal variable. You might want it this way:

[snipped]
def show(self):
     self.bar = 2 # Note *self.*
     print "%(bar) bar only, for foo see other posts" % vars(self)

HTH,
Anton.