[Tutor] __getattr__ causes TypeError

[Jan Eden]

Sorry! Found the typo.

- Jan

Jan Eden wrote on 25.09.2005:

>Hi,
>
>I experienced a strange side effect using a custom __getattr__ method.
>
>For a certain attribute, I'd like to return the value of another attribute if 
>the former is not present. So I wrote:
>
>def __getattr__(self, attrname):
>    if attrname == 'own_type': return self.child_type
>    else: AttributeError, attrname
>
>But if I include this in my base class, I get a TypeError somewhere else:
>
>  File "/Users/jan/Sites/janeden/cgi-bin/Pythonsite/Show.py", line 24, in 
>Populate
>   self.page_head = re.sub('%%author%%', self.first_name+' '+self.last_name, 
>self.page_head)
>TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
>
>How can this possibly be related? I am clueless.
>
>Best,
>
>Jan
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