Overriding all methods in a class

[Christian Tismer]

Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking for an answer for this question for a while, but 
> couldn't find anything that would work for what I want to do.
> 
> I know that you can use __getattr__ to overload methods that your class 
> don't have, but what about overloading all methods, so I could in a way 
> 'intercept' calls to my methods and do something different if I wanted, is 
> that possible ?
> 
> What I want to do basically is create a caching system for a specific 
> class, and have __getattr__ (or any other magic method name) handle the 
> decision to sue the cached return value or to actually call the method.
> 
> Maybe it would be just easier to rename my current class to _Classname and 
> create a new Classname with just __getattr__.
> 
> Any suggestions ?

Use the new class type, by deriving from some builtin,
and then use the new __getattribute__. For instance

class MyObject(object):
     def __getattribute__(self, name):
         print name
         return getattr(MyObject, name)

But be *very* careful, it is easy to cause endless recursions,
for instance it is not possible to use self.__class__ in
that context.

ciao - chris

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