Newbie again: computing attributes on the fly

[Olaf Delgado]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Gordon McMillan wrote:

> [Olaf on my very simple getattr hack]:
> 
> > 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__".
> 
> Oh, getattr isn't bad. Wait 'till you try setattr! Anyway, this 
> should demonstrate how to control the recursion:
[...]

Yes, that looks much more civilized than my version. So, I'll have to take
a closer look at all these magic methods.

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