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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:36:54 +0100
Subject: Re: __dict__ attribute for built-in types
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
To: candide <candide@free.fr>
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On 27 October 2011 11:08, candide <candide@free.invalid> wrote:
> I realize that built-in types objects don't provide a __dict__ attribute =
and
> thereby i can't set an attribute to a such object, for instance
>
>
>>>> a=3D[42,421]
>>>> a.foo=3D"bar"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> =C2=A0File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'foo'
>>>> a.__dict__
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> =C2=A0File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute '__dict__'
>>>>

Some built in types have a __dict__:

>>> def foo(): pass
...
>>> foo.__dict__
{}
>>> import random
>>> len(random.__dict__)
57

>
> So, i was wondering :
>
> -- why this behaviour ?

Performance reasons I guess.

> -- where the official documentation refers to this point ?

I don't know this one :)

--=20
Arnaud