Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

[Stephen Hansen]

On 6/15/10 9:16 PM, John Nagle wrote:
>    Cute, but it doesn't work in general.  Faking a module as a
> class fails when you simply call
> 
>     x()
> 
> within the module.

Huh? Explain how it doesn't work? I've done it at least twice
(shamefully do I admit this) and it works fine. Real life code.

> Any more ideas?

There aren't any; modules do not follow the class object protocol. They
are simple types with a __dict__ (which you can't change, either, so no
replacing it with a dict that implements __setattr__).

Replacing the module with a class in sys.modules is really the only way
to fake the behavior.	

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   Stephen Hansen
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