2010/8/24 R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com>: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:26:09 -0500, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > wrote: >> 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. > > Benjamin, I remember you fixing various special method lookups, so just > for clarity's sake, which versions of Python does your statement apply to?
2.7, 3.1, and 3.2 should all be good. -- 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
