Are you all mad? (Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 231, __findattr__())

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "greg" ==   <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

    | 1) Make the __dict__ attribute special, so that accessing
    | it always bypasses __findattr__.

You're not far from what I came up with right after our delicious
lunch.  We're going to invent a new protocol which passes __dict__
into the method as an argument.  That way self.__dict__ doesn't need
to be special cased at all because you can get at all the attributes
via a local!  So no recursion stop hack is necessary.

More in the updated PEP and patch.

-Barry