On Sun Nov 30 2014 at 2:16:18 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014, 21:55 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >> All the use cases seem to be about adding some kind of getattr hook to >> modules. They all seem to involve modifying the CPython C code anyway. So >> why not tackle that problem head-on and modify module_getattro() to look >> for a global named __getattr__ and if it exists, call that instead of >> raising AttributeError? >> >> Not sure if anyone thought of it. :) Seems like a reasonable solution >> to me. Be curious to know what the benchmark suite said the impact was. >> > Why would there be any impact? The __getattr__ hook would be similar to > the one on classes -- it's only invoked at the point where otherwise > AttributeError would be raised. > You're right. My brain was thinking __getattribute__ semantics for some reason. >
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