Here's a quick and dirty proof of concept I knocked up in about 20 minutes, demonstrating that no deep compiler magic is needed. It's just a small change to the way `object.__getattribute__` works. I've emulated it with my own base class, since `object` can't be monkey-patched. The proof of concept is probably buggy and incomplete. It isn't intended to be a final, polished production-ready implementation. It's not implementation-agnostic: it requires the ability to inspect the call stack. If you're using IronPython, this may not work. You will notice I didn't need to touch getattr to have it work, let alone hack the interpreter to make it some sort of magical construct. It all works through `__getattribute__`. The registration system is just the easiest thing that I could throw together. There are surely better designs. Run A.py to see it in action. -- Steve