Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Apr 5 10:32:41 CEST 2010

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Carl M. Johnson wrote:

> * It would make "method" in dir(obj) marginally faster

Wouldn't hasattr(obj, "method") be a better way
to do that?


> * Even though the order isn’t important for code, it’s convenient at
> the interactive prompt to see the methods of an item in alphabetical
> order for quick scanning.

Since I suspect this is most people's main use for
dir(), I think it's a good enough reason for leaving
things as they are.

-- 
Greg

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