'Return dictionary of HTML attributes for a single ListControl item.
The HTML element types that describe list items are: OPTION for SELECT
controls, INPUT for the rest.  These elements have HTML attributes that
you may occasionally want to know about -- for example, the "alt" HTML
attribute gives a text string describing the item (graphical browsers
usually display this as a tooltip).
The returned dictionary maps HTML attribute names to values.  The names
and values are taken from the original HTML.'

def get_item_attrs(self, name, by_label=False, nr=None):

    deprecation('control.get(...).attrs')
    return self._get(name, by_label, nr).attrs
