[Python-Dev] dir, part 2 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Nov 10 22:12:19 CET 2006


On 11/10/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I think that ought to go into the guidlines for what's an acceptable > dir implementation. We don't try to stop people from overriding > add as subtraction either. to me, overriding dir() is a lot more like overriding id() than over- riding "+". I don't think an object should be allowed to lie to the introspection mechanisms.

Why not? You can override class already. With a metaclass you can probably override inspection of the class, too.

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