The right way to 'call' a class attribute inside the same class

Steve D'Aprano steve+python at pearwood.info
Mon Dec 12 16:50:54 EST 2016


On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 03:17 am, Chris Angelico wrote:

> You could check "foo" in self.__dict__, but I don't know of any
> real-world situations where you need to.

vars(self) is probably the better way to access self's namespace, rather
than directly self.__dict__. Unfortunately vars() doesn't understand
__slots__, which I think is an oversight.




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Steve
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