[PyKDE] a few issues

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 08 August 2005 7:14 pm, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:50:27 +0100
>
> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Friday 29 July 2005 6:16 am, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> > > (1) (public) member data of class Foo does not show up in dir(Foo).
> > >     This trips up tools like PyChecker and the standard library module
> > >     inspect.py
> >
> > Works for me. Do you have an example .sip file in case I'm
> > misunderstanding what you mean?
>
> Sorry, I was not clear enough: public data shows up in instances but not
> in classes:
>
> %Module v 0
>
> class C
> {
> %TypeHeaderCode
> class C
> {
> public:
>     void alwaysVisible() {};
>     int hiddenInClassButVisibleInInstance;
> };
> %End
>
> public:
>     void alwaysVisible();
>     int hiddenInClassButVisibleInInstance;
> };
>
>
> And now:
>
> [packer at titan data]$ python
> Python 2.4 (#2, Feb 12 2005, 00:29:46)
> [GCC 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-3mdk)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> >>> from v import *
> >>> dir(C)
>
> ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__',
> '__init__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
> '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__weakref__', 'alwaysVisible']
>
> >>> c = C()
> >>> dir(c)
>
> ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__',
> '__init__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
> '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__weakref__', 'alwaysVisible',
> 'hiddenInClassButVisibleInInstance']

But an instance variable doesn't make any sense in that context. What object 
would you expect C.__dict__['hiddenInClassButVisibleInInstance'] to be?

Phil