From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 02:48:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add note about the __name__ read-only attribute
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~391
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f72de0fb8cf74c7fd99515273cf1d91fcfaf3de2;p=python

add note about the __name__ read-only attribute
(closes SF bug #952212)
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index 96dc9ac102..ccb16c006b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -1785,7 +1785,8 @@ slice objects.
 \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
@@ -1810,3 +1811,7 @@ The class to which a class instance belongs.
 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}