how to get names of attributes

Wed Dec 30 08:31:57 EST 2015

On 2015年12月30日 23:50:03 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Charles T. Smith
> <cts.private.yahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh!
>>>> Although the referenced doc says:
>>>> "For compatibility reasons, classes are still old-style by default."
>>>> is it true that dictionaries are by default always new-style objects?
>>>> (PDB)c6 = { "abc" : 123, "def" : 456}
>>>> (PDB)isinstance (c6, dict)
>> True
>>>> (PDB)isinstance (c6, object)
>> True
>> I believe that's true, yes. The meaning of "by default" there is that
> "class X: pass" will make an old-style class. All built-in types are now
> new-style classes.
>> ChrisA

Okay, thank you. I'm trying to understand your program.
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the same output you had, using python 2.6 
or 2.7. Maybe I haven't been able to restore the indentation correctly 
after having been filtered through pan(1).
I wonder what the difference is between vars() and items()