Re: [PATCH] don't dump private data members

[Chris Lumens <clumens redhat com>]

> diff --git a/exception.py b/exception.py
> index e4e7c08..b146315 100644
> --- a/exception.py
> +++ b/exception.py
> @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ class AnacondaExceptionDump:
>          pad = ' ' * ((level) * 2)
>
>          for key, value in instance.__dict__.items():
> +            if key.startswith("_%s__" % instance.__class__.__name__):
> +                continue
> +
>              if parentkey != "":
>                  curkey = parentkey + "." + key
>              else:
>
> This is beyond my python skills, so no comment on this.

Python has some funny ideas about how to make something a private member
of a class.  It mangles the name to be _ClassName__MemberName.  So if
you have the following class:

class A:
   def __init__(self):
      self.__blah = None

Then you really have class A with member _A__blah in any instances.
Kind of silly, really.

This part of the patch looks through all the members in an instance of a
class and skips over any that have been mangled into being private.

- Chris