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Steven D'Aprano  
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 More options Oct 5 2012, 7:00 pm
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From: Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>
Date: 05 Oct 2012 23:00:30 GMT
Local: Fri, Oct 5 2012 7:00 pm
Subject: Re: instance.attribute lookup
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:39:53 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> There is a StackOverflow question [1] that points to this on-line book
> [2] which has a five-step sequence for looking up attributes:

>  > When retrieving an attribute from an object (print
>  > objectname.attrname) Python follows these steps:

>  > 1. If attrname is a special (i.e. Python-provided) attribute for
>  > objectname, return it.
[...]
> I'm thinking step 1 is flat-out wrong and doesn't exist.  Does anybody
> know otherwise?

I'm thinking I don't even understand what step 1 means.

What's a Python-provided attribute, and how is it different from other
attributes?

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Steven


 
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