[Python-Dev] 'hasattr' is broken by design

[Benjamin Peterson]

2010/8/24 R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:26:09 -0500, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> 2010/8/24 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
>> > At 03:37 PM 8/24/2010 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>> >>
>> >> a) a "business" case of throwing anything other than AttributeError from
>> >> __getattr__ and friends is almost certainly a bug waiting to happen, and
>> >
>> > FYI, best practice for __getattr__ is generally to bail with an
>> > AttributeError as soon as you see double underscores in the name, unless you
>> > intend to support special attributes.
>>
>> Unless you're in an old-style class, you shouldn't get an double
>> underscore methods in __getattr__ (or __getattribute__). If you do,
>> it's a bug.
>
> Benjamin, I remember you fixing various special method lookups, so just
> for clarity's sake, which versions of Python does your statement apply to?

2.7, 3.1, and 3.2 should all be good.


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Regards,
Benjamin