[Tutor] Builtin "property" decorator hiding exceptions

[Andreas Kostyrka]

I know, this might sound stupid, but property is not a decorator. :)

Andreas

* Jacob Abraham <jakieabraham at yahoo.com> [070419 08:25]:
> Hi,
> 
>    The sample script below throws the exception "AttributeError: input" rather than the expected exception "AttributeError: non_existent_attribute".  
> 
>    Please help me write a decorator or descriptor of my own that fixes the issue.
> 
> class Sample(object):
>     def __init__(self):
>         self.arguments = {}
> 
>     def __getattr__(self, name):
>         ret_val = self.arguments.get(name, None)
>         if ret_val != None: return ret_val
>         raise AttributeError, name
>     
>     @property
>     def input(self):
>         self.non_existent_attribute
>     
> 
> sample = Sample()
> sample.input
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Jacob Abraham
> 
> 
> 
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