Is it possible to introspect actual attributes/methods of an object which overrides `dir` and `getattribute`?

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Some answers from this question bring very silly ways to cripple the ability to access methods and attributes for instances of objects overriding __dir__ and __getattribute__.

The attributes and methods are still there, but are they really inaccessible?

For example, type(x) still returns the correct answer even if x.__class__ raises AttributeError.

Is there any way to access the hidden methods and attributes?

@martineau: interesting, but how about the instance `__dict__`? — Paulo Scardine, Jul 18 '12 at 09:48
Since it's a new style class, `object.__getattribute__(x, '__dict__')` — martineau, Jul 18 '12 at 11:06
@martineau: genius! make it an answer so you can collect a few reputation points. — Paulo Scardine, Jul 18 '12 at 13:01

martineau · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-18T18:28:28.313

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For instances of a new-style class you could do something like this:

object.__getattribute__(instance, '__dict__')

I got the idea while reading a section titled More attribute access for new-style classes in the documentation, where they suggest doing something like that to avoid infinite recursion in its implementation.

edited Jul 18 '12 at 18:28

answered Jul 18 '12 at 16:47

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Is it possible to introspect actual attributes/methods of an object which overrides `__dir__` and `__getattribute__`?

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Is it possible to introspect actual attributes/methods of an object which overrides `dir` and `getattribute`?