Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Agreed that section of the docs should be more explicit in pointing out that __getattr__ and __getattribute__ won't work for proxying special methods for new-style classes.
It's also true that there are quite a few special methods where nothing special is needed to correctly proxy the methods. That said, defining all of the methods blindly is also bad (as a lot of informal type testing is done by checking for certain special methods as attributes). Perhaps it would be useful to have a method on type instances that could be explicitly invoked to tell the type to run through all the tp_* slots and populate them based on doing getattr(self, "__slotname__"). (Note that it's only those methods with dedicated slots in the C type structure that are a problem here - those which are implemented solely as normal Python methods like __enter__, __exit__ or the pickle module's special methods can typically be overridden as expected through the use of __getattr__ and __getattribute__) ____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue643841> ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
