[Python-Dev] Attribute lookup ambiguity
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 21 05:54:18 CET 2010
Michael Foord wrote:
> Well, the documentation you pointed to specifies that __getattr__ will
> be called if __getattribute__ raises an AttributeError, it just doesn't
> specify that it is done by object.__getattribute__ (which it isn't).
If __getattribute__ raises an exception, it won't get a chance to
do anything else, so something outside of __getattribute__ must
catch the AttributeError and calling __getattr__. So I think the
docs *are* specifying the behaviour here, if only by implication.
--
Greg
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