folks, what's wrong with this?

[Ani Sinha]

> And now for the most import point: __getattr__ is only called as a
> *last* resort. That is, after the attribute lookup mechanism will have
> tried *and failed* to find the name in the instance's __dict__.

Thanks you all for all the suggestions and thoughts. So in other
words, this piece of code:

        try:
            return self.__dict__.__getitem__(item)
        except KeyError:
            raise AttributeError(item)

in __getattr__ is redundant.