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Subject: Re: how to get names of attributes
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 23:50:03 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Charles T. Smith
> <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh!
>>
>> Although the referenced doc says:
>>
>>   "For compatibility reasons, classes are still old-style by default."
>>
>> is it true that dictionaries are by default always new-style objects?
>>
>>   (PDB)c6 = { "abc" : 123, "def" : 456}
>>
>>   (PDB)isinstance (c6, dict)
>>   True
>>
>>   (PDB)isinstance (c6, object)
>>   True
> 
> I believe that's true, yes. The meaning of "by default" there is that
> "class X: pass" will make an old-style class. All built-in types are now
> new-style classes.
> 
> ChrisA


Okay, thank you.  I'm trying to understand your program.

Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the same output you had, using python 2.6 
or 2.7.  Maybe I haven't been able to restore the indentation correctly 
after having been filtered through pan(1).

I wonder what the difference is between vars() and items()