Question regarding re module

[Tim Golden]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> On Jun 5, 7:11 am, Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomoh... at jp.fujitsu.com>
> wrote:
>>> It could be that the result overloads the __getattr__-method to delegate
>>> calls to some object. Thus it's not part of the outer instance.
> 
> Didn't I read that Py3 will support a __dir__ method so that classes
> *could* report such pseudo-attributes in response to dir?

It's already there in 2.6:

... class X (object):
...   def __init__ (self, a, b):
...     self.a = a
...     self.b = b
...   def __dir__ (self):
...     return ['a', 'b', 'c']
...
 >>> dir (X (1, 2))
['a', 'b', 'c']
 >>>

TJG