[Zope-dev] Python 2.3.2 and dir

[Alan Milligan]

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade my Zpydoc product to Python 2.3.2 from 2.1.3 and 
have come across a confusing situation in regard to the 
inspect.getmembers function.

This function uses the builtin dir() function to get a list of an 
objects attributes.  For Zope products, I am getting a situation where 
returned attributes are not found in the object - explicitly __call__, 
__delattr__, etc etc.

I suspect this has something to do with python 2.2 class changes, and 
issues with ExtensionClass not behaving like a first class Python 
object.  If someone can give me a complete explaination, I can decide 
upon appropriate behaviour..

In addition, there's a caveat upon the dir() function:

Note: Because dir() is supplied primarily as a convenience for use at an 
interactive prompt, it tries to supply an interesting set of names more 
than it tries to supply a rigorously or consistently defined set of 
names, and its detailed behavior may change across releases.


While this is fine for dir(), surely we do expect consistency across 
releases for inspect.getmembers....