[Jython-users] dir() not working

[John G. <jgo...@co...>]

In Jython:

Jython 2.1a3 on java1.1.8 (JIT: null)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> dir("")
[]
>>> ".".join(['1', '2', '3', '4'])
'1.2.3.4'
>>> dir([])
['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']

In Python:

Python 2.0.1 (#0, Jun 23 2001, 23:50:30)
[GCC 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> dir("")
['capitalize', 'center', 'count', 'encode', 'endswith', 'expandtabs', 'find', 'index', 'isalnum', 'isalpha', 'isdigit', 'islower', 'isspace', 'istitle', 'isupper', 'join', 'ljust', 'lower', 'lstrip', 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rstrip', 'split', 'splitlines', 'startswith', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'title', 'translate', 'upper']
>>> ".".join(['1', '2', '3', '4'])
'1.2.3.4'
>>> dir([])
['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']

Why is Jython's dir() not showing methods that clearly exist?  The
last version of Python that didn't show those on dir("") didn't
actually have them.

-- 
John Goerzen <jgo...@co...>    GPG: 0x8A1D9A1F    www.complete.org