instance.__dict__ & class.__dict__

Question

Code goes first:

class A(object):
    def foo(self):
        self.foo = \'foo\'
    def bar(self):
        self.bar = \'bar\'

cls_dict = dict(A.__dict__)  #not          


        

Answer 1

a.__dict__ is empty because none of the attributes have been initialized on the instance as there's no __init__() defined. Meanwhile, a class is an object, and it has initialized some attributes.

>>> A