[Python] Why is cls.__dict__[meth] different than getattr(cls, meth) for...

I've never seen anything else work like this before.

Is there anything else that does this?

>>> class NothingSpecial:
@classmethod
def meth(cls): pass

>>> NothingSpecial.meth
<bound method classobj.meth of <class __main__.NothingSpecial at 0x02C68C70>>
>>> NothingSpecial.__dict__['meth']
<classmethod object at 0x03F15FD0>

>>> getattr(NothingSpecial, 'meth')
<bound method NothingSpecial.meth of <class '__main__.NothingSpecial'>>

>>> object.__getattribute__(NothingSpecial, 'meth')
<classmethod object at 0x03FAFE90>

>>> type.__getattribute__(NothingSpecial, 'meth')
<bound method NothingSpecial.meth of <class '__main__.NothingSpecial'>>

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