John Machin wrote: >> Is there a way to define self.me without it firing __setattr__? > Consider reading the *second* paragraph about __setattr__ in section > 3.4.2 of the Python Reference Manual.
Like I said in my original post, it was probably staring me right in the face. I had read through a bit of the documentation on special methods, but for some reason I missed that part. Thanks to all for your responses! j -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list