how to get names of attributes

[Mark Lawrence]

On 30/12/2015 13:31, Charles T. Smith wrote:
>
> I wonder what the difference is between vars() and items()
>

Not much.  From https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#vars

<quote>
vars([object])

     Return the __dict__ attribute for a module, class, instance, or any 
other object with a __dict__ attribute.

     Objects such as modules and instances have an updateable __dict__ 
attribute; however, other objects may have write restrictions on their 
__dict__ attributes (for example, classes use a dictproxy to prevent 
direct dictionary updates).

     Without an argument, vars() acts like locals(). Note, the locals 
dictionary is only useful for reads since updates to the locals 
dictionary are ignored.
</quote>

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Mark Lawrence