[Python-Dev] why doesn't print pass unicode strings on to the file object?

[Guido van Rossum]

> _fields = {'encode':0,'decode':1,'reader':2,'writer':3}
> class CodecInfo(tuple):
>     __dynamic__ = 0
>     def __getattr__(self, name):
>         try:
>             return self[_fields[name]]
>         except KeyError:
>             raise AttributeError, name

You want to change that raise statement into

              return tuple.__getattr__(self, name)

Remember, new-style __getattr__ *replaces* the built-in getattr
operation; it doesn't only get invoked when the built-in getattr
doesn't find the attribute, like it does for classic classes.

(I'm still considering whether this is too backwards incompatible; we
could have two getattr hooks, one old-style and one new-style.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)