On 19 Sep 2013 20:00, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19 September 2013 10:32, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> wrote: > > The first time a method is called the bridge looks for an Objective-C selector > > with the same name and adds that to the class dictionary. This works fine for normal > > method lookups, by overriding __getattribute__, but causes problems with super: > > super happily ignores __getattribute__ and peeks in the class __dict__ which may > > not yet contain the name we're looking for and that can result in incorrect results > > (both incorrect AttributeErrors and totally incorrect results when the name is > > not yet present in the parent class' __dict__ but is in the grandparent's __dict__). > > As an alternative approach, could you use a custom dict subclass as > the class __dict__, and catch the peeking in the class __dict__ that > way? Or is this one of those places where only a real dict will do?
Even Python 3 doesn't let you control the *runtime* type of the class dict, only the type used during evaluation of the class body. I've played with changing that - it makes for a rather special interpreter experience :) Cheers, Nick. > > Paul
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