how to get names of attributes

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015, at 07:50, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> I believe that's true, yes. The meaning of "by default" there is that
>> "class X: pass" will make an old-style class. All built-in types are
>> now new-style classes.
>
> To be clear, AFAIK, built-in types were never old-style classes - prior
> to the introduction of the new type system (i.e. in Python 2.1 and
> earlier) they were not classes, and afterwards they were immediately
> new-style classes.
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Thanks Random. I wasn't actively using Python until about 2.5ish, and
wasn't following python-dev until even more recently, so I didn't keep
track of all that. And frankly, old-style classes have just been
something I avoid whereever possible.

ChrisA