Newbie again: computing attributes on the fly

[David Ascher]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Olaf Delgado wrote:

> Yes, I definitely want to generalize that. The problem is that that method
> may be defined in a superclass, so "self.__dict__" won't find it. AFAIK
> (which may be not be very far), I have to use "hasattr" and/or "getattr",
> which in turn will call "__getattr__".

You may find that using ExtensionClass could help.  See:

    http://www.digicool.com/releases/ExtensionClass/

(note especially the section on computed attributes in the documentation).

--david