[New-bugs-announce] [issue12879] "method-wrapper" objects are difficult to inspect

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

This is a bit unhelpful:

>>> s = io.StringIO()
>>> s.__getattribute__
<method-wrapper '__getattribute__' of _io.StringIO object at 0x7f118a2997f0>
>>> dir(s.__getattribute__)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: object does not provide __dir__

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 143349
nosy: amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: "method-wrapper" objects are difficult to inspect
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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