On 19 Sep 2013 20:00, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19 September 2013 10:32, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@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 :)