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Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Dec 18 16:50:27 EST 2003
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Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com>:
The other misconception (apparently) is that the only real USE for accessing the class attribute is for testing class membership. You said above that it's useful "for all sorts of reasons"... I'm wondering what they are.
Two that come to mind:
Looking at the class's docstring
Finding out what methods an object has
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