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2.3.11 Special Attributes
The implementation adds a few special read-only attributes to several
object types, where they are relevant. Some of these are not reported
by the
<tt class=
"function">dir()
</tt> built-in function.
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class=
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A dictionary or other mapping object used to store an
object's (writable) attributes.
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272' xml:id='l2h-
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274'
class=
"member">__class__
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The class to which a class instance belongs.
<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-
275' xml:id='l2h-
275'
class=
"member">__bases__
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The tuple of base classes of a class object. If there are no base
classes, this will be an empty tuple.
<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-
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class=
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The name of the class or type.
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