predicting function calls?

[Roy Smith]

In article <864q4tdbfe.fsf at bhuda.mired.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> 
wrote:

> Fnorb (a pure-Python CORBA orb) dealt with this by not allowing
> attributes per se. Instead, it provided _get_AttributeName and
> _set_AttributeName as appropriate for each attribute in the IDL. Doing
> this means that *everything* you hand back from __getattr__ is going
> to be a callable, and presumably called at some point.

That's exactly what the low-level C/C++ API does in the system I'm working 
with.  It is, unfortunately, not the interface that's exposed by the serial 
protocol.