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From: Jennie <nameDOTportua@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to see the __name__ attribute of a class by using dir()
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:59:36 +0200
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On 10/20/2012 10:24 AM, Peter Otten wrote:

> So if you want to customise dir(Foo) you have to modify the metaclass:
>
>>>> >>>class Foo:
> ...     class __metaclass__(type):
> ...             def __dir__(self): return ["python"]
> ...
>>>> >>>dir(Foo)
> ['python']
>
>

Hi Peter, thanks for your answer, but it does not work (Python 3.3):

 >>> class Foo:
...     class __metaclass__(type):
...         def __dir__(self): return ["python"]
...
 >>> dir(Foo)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', ...]

Regards,
-- 
Jennie