[Python-Dev] Comment on PEP 562 (Module __getattr__ and __dir__)

[Guido van Rossum]

Yeah, I don't think there's an action item here except *maybe* changes to
the wording of the PEP. Ivan?

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 20.11.17 03:02, Guido van Rossum пише:
>
>> Serhiy's definition sounds recursive (defining __getattr__ to define the
>> behavior of __getattr__) but Mark's suggestion makes his intention unclear
>> since the error message is still the same.
>>
>
> It is recursive only when the '__dict__' attribute is not defined. I
> assumed that it is defined for simplicity. And if isn't defined
> hasattr(self, '__dict__') will cause a recursion too.
>
> In any case the real C code handles this more carefully and effectively.
>
>
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