Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
And now for the most import point: __getattr__ is only called as a
*last* resort. That is, after the attribute lookup mechanism will have
tried *and failed* to find the name in the instance's __dict__.
In general, "getattr" is for unusual situations only.
If you want to store objects by name, use an ordinary
dict. Using "getattr" means you have to worry about clashes with
built-in names, the limitations of attribute syntax (BeautifulSoup
can be crashed by this), and some Unicode issues with attribute names.
So don't do that.
John Nagle
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