2010/8/24 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>: > At 03:37 PM 8/24/2010 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >> >> a) a "business" case of throwing anything other than AttributeError from >> __getattr__ and friends is almost certainly a bug waiting to happen, and > > FYI, best practice for __getattr__ is generally to bail with an > AttributeError as soon as you see double underscores in the name, unless you > intend to support special attributes.
Unless you're in an old-style class, you shouldn't get an double underscore methods in __getattr__ (or __getattribute__). If you do, it's a bug. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
