properly implementing the __getattribute__()

[Carlo v. Dango]

hello there. I have a hard time implementing __getattribute__ properly. I 
know I should stay away from that method, but Im doing some low-level 
changes to the dispatching and method-lookup, so I really don't have a 
choice ;-)

the following code

class Foo(object):
	def __init__(self):
		self.name = "hans"

	def foo(self):
		print "foo"		

class Bar(Foo):
	def info(self):
		print self.name


b = Bar()
print dir(b)
print b.__dict__

results in

[...,  'foo', 'info', 'name']
{'name': 'hans'}



But when I implement a simple __getattribute__

class Foo(object):
    def __getattribute__(self, name): return object.__getattribute__(self, 
name)

	def __init__(self):
		self.name = "hans"

	def foo(self):
		print "foo"		

class Bar(Foo):
	def info(self):
		print self.name

b = Bar()
print dir(b)
print b.__dict__


I get

[...,  'info']
{}


so the method and the field decl of the super type is now gone :( And 
worse.. if i do a "b.foo()" it fails with the error AttributeError: 'Bar' 
object has no attribute 'foo'

I'm completely lost

Suggestions are deeply appreciated...

-Carlo v. Dango


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