On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:26:09 -0500, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2010/8/24 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>: > > At 03:37 PM 8/24/2010 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> > >> a) a "business" case of throwing anything other than AttributeError from > >> __getattr__ and friends is almost certainly a bug waiting to happen, and > > > > FYI, best practice for __getattr__ is generally to bail with an > > AttributeError as soon as you see double underscores in the name, unless you > > intend to support special attributes. > > Unless you're in an old-style class, you shouldn't get an double > underscore methods in __getattr__ (or __getattribute__). If you do, > it's a bug.
Benjamin, I remember you fixing various special method lookups, so just for clarity's sake, which versions of Python does your statement apply to? -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
