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Author ethan.furman
Recipients arigo, eli.bendersky, eric.snow, ethan.furman, ronaldoussoren
Date 2013-10-07.03:25:28
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Message-id <1381116329.81.0.987690490533.issue16938@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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class Boom:
    def __dir__(self):
        return ['BOOM']
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        if name =='BOOM':
            return 42
        return super().__getattr(name)

help(Boom)
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Help on class Boom in module __main__:

class Boom(builtins.object)
 |  Methods defined here:
 |  
 |  __dir__(self)
 |  
 |  __getattr__(self, name)
 |  
 |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 |  Data descriptors defined here:
 |  
 |  __dict__
 |      dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
 |  
 |  __weakref__
 |      list of weak references to the object (if defined)
(END)
=========================================================================

So on an instance there is no problem.

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import inspect

class MetaBoom(type):
    def __dir__(cls):
        return ['__class__', '__module__', '__name__', 'BOOM']
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        if name =='BOOM':
            return 42
        return super().__getattr(name)
    def test(self):
        print('testing...')

class Boom(metaclass=MetaBoom):
    pass

help(Boom())
=========================================================================
Help on Boom in module __main__ object:

<class '__main__.Boom'>
(END)
=========================================================================

Still have problem with metaclasses.

Looking at the result from inspect.classify_class_attrs() we see:
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Attribute(name='BOOM', kind='data', defining_class=None,
    object=<object object at 0x7f061f04d200>)
=========================================================================

The defining class for BOOM should be Boom, not None.

With the attached patch, we get:
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Help on Boom in module __main__ object:

class Boom(builtins.object)
 |  Data and other attributes defined here:
 |  
 |  BOOM = 42
(END)
=========================================================================
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2013-10-07 03:25:29ethan.furmansetrecipients: + ethan.furman, arigo, ronaldoussoren, eli.bendersky, eric.snow
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