Michael Foord a écrit :
On 20/03/2010 12:00, Pascal Chambon wrote:
But the point which for me is still unclear, is : does the default
implementation of __getattribute__ (the one of "object") call
__getattr__ by himself, or does it rely on its caller for that, by
raising an AttributeError ? For Python2, it's blatantly the latter
case which is favoured, but since it looks like an implementation
detail at the moment, I propose we settle it (and document it) once
for all.
Ah right, my apologies. So it is still documented behaviour -
__getattr__ is obviously called by the Python runtime and not by
__getattribute__. (It isn't just by getattr as the same behaviour is
shown when doing a normal attribute lookup and not via the getattr
function.)
I really don't see the docs you're referring to ; until I tested myself,
I think I had no obvious reasons to guess that __getattribute__ relied
on the upper level caller instead of finishing the hard job himself.
Nick Coghlan a écrit :
Michael Foord wrote:
Well, the documentation you pointed to specifies that __getattr__ will
be called if __getattribute__ raises an AttributeError, it just doesn't
specify that it is done by object.__getattribute__ (which it isn't).
And as for why not: because __getattribute__ implementations need to be
able to call object.__getattribute__ without triggering the fallback
behaviour.
Cheers,
Nick.
I guess there are cases in which it is beneficial indeed.
Michael Foord wrote:
Well, the documentation you pointed to specifies that __getattr__
will be called if __getattribute__ raises an AttributeError, it just
doesn't specify that it is done by object.__getattribute__ (which it
isn't).
If __getattribute__ raises an exception, it won't get a chance to
do anything else, so something outside of __getattribute__ must
catch the AttributeError and calling __getattr__. So I think the
docs *are* specifying the behaviour here, if only by implication.
I don't follow you there - in my mind, the default __getattribute__
could simply have wrapped all its operations inside soem kind of
"try..catch AttributeError:" mechanism, and thus been able to fallback
to __getattr__ in any way.
If I sum it up properly the semantic is :
-A.obj and getattr(A, "obj") are exactly the same
-They trigger the calling of __getattribute__ on the object (or it's
python core equivalent)
-By default, this __getattribute__ browse the whole object hierarchy
according to well known rules (__dict__, type, type's ancestors..),
handling descriptor protocols and the like. But it doesn't fallback to
__getattr__ - it raises an AttributeError instead.
-getattr() falls back to __getattr__ if __getattribute__ fails
-customized __getattribute__ methods have the choice between calling
__getattr__ by themselves, or delegating it to getattr() by raising an
exception.
Wouldn't it be worth completing the doc with these point ? They really
didn't seem obvious to me basically (even though, after analysis, some
behaviours make more sense than others).
I might submit a patch.
regards,
Pascal
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