any way to protect __dict__?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Chris Knight wrote:
> 
> Hi all, I've been working on a class that has the __get/setattr__ function but
> I want to protect __dict__ so that all attribute access has to go through these
> functions.  Is there a way to do such a thing?
> 
> Perusing the C API, I'd guess I could do this through an object created in C.
> I haven't spent much time with the C API so I don't fully understand what the
> limitations of such an implementation might imply...

Protecting __dict__ only is difficult, since this is handled by the
class/instance implementation. One way to achieve what you have in
mind is to protect the whole object against access from other
objects and only enable a small set of allowed methods.

mxProxy will help you a long way in achieving this without having
to switch over to protected execution mode:

	http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxProxy.html

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