On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:32 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > The simplistic self.foo = self.compute_foo() will trigger a call to > > __getattr__, so you can't use that within __getattr__. > > That's not true; it *will*, however, trigger a call to __settattr__, > if it exists; that's what you're thinking of :) > > cf. http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__setattr__ > > __getattr__, however, is free to just do `self.foo = ...'.
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