orospakr@mithrandir:~$ python
Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Oct 11 2006, 20:00:03) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> blahblah = object()
>>> blahblah.__dict__
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute '__dict__'