Demo of using __dict__ to pull stuff out of objects.

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DamiansMacBookPro:patchwork damian$ python
clPython 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class Boob(object):
...     someawesomething = "nipple"
... 
>>> abc = Boob()
>>> print(abc.someawesomething)
nipple
>>> print abc.__dict__
{}
>>> print Boob.__dict__
{'__dict__': <attribute '__dict__' of 'Boob' objects>, '__module__': '__main__', '__weakref__': <attribute '__weakref__' of 'Boob' objects>, '__doc__': None, 'someawesomething': 'nipple'}
>>> abc.thisval = "awesome"
>>> print abc.__dict__
{'thisval': 'awesome'}
>>>