object class

[volcano63]

object does not have __dict__ attribute, thus its instantiations can't be updated

In [1]: dir(object)
Out[1]:
['__class__',
 '__delattr__',
 '__dir__',
 '__doc__',
 '__eq__',
 '__format__',
 '__ge__',
 '__getattribute__',
 '__gt__',
 '__hash__',
 '__init__',
 '__le__',
 '__lt__',
 '__ne__',
 '__new__',
 '__reduce__',
 '__reduce_ex__',
 '__repr__',
 '__setattr__',
 '__sizeof__',
 '__str__',
 '__subclasshook__']

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Seems to me you should have received this error immediately:

Error:
>>> x.name = 'Fred'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'x' is not defined
>>>

here, was x already declared

What was the type of your x

In [4]: class X(object):
   ...:     pass
   ...:

In [5]: x = X()

In [6]: x.name = 'Fred'

In [7]: '__dict__' in dir(X)
Out[7]: True