diff Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @ 32069:24c46001416e 2.3

add note about the __name__ read-only attribute (closes SF bug #952212)
author Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
date Wed, 12 May 2004 02:47:56 +0000
parents 586a49c2c641
children b00b26cbc303
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex	Tue May 11 18:11:11 2004 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex	Wed May 12 02:47:56 2004 +0000
@@ -1649,7 +1649,8 @@
 \subsection{Special Attributes \label{specialattrs}}
 
 The implementation adds a few special read-only attributes to several
-object types, where they are relevant:
+object types, where they are relevant.  Some of these are not reported
+by the \function{dir()} built-in function.
 
 \begin{memberdesc}[object]{__dict__}
 A dictionary or other mapping object used to store an
@@ -1674,3 +1675,7 @@
 The tuple of base classes of a class object.  If there are no base
 classes, this will be an empty tuple.
 \end{memberdesc}
+
+\begin{memberdesc}[class]{__name__}
+The name of the class or type.
+\end{memberdesc}