[issue12248] __dir__ semantics changed in Python 2.7.2

[Benjamin Peterson]

Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> added the comment:

2011/6/3 Raymond Hettinger <report at bugs.python.org>:
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> Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:
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> I believe the type check was gratuitous to begin with and should be removed.  There's no reason the result has to be a list.

The reason for it is that the sort() method is called on it.

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