On Mon, Jan 7, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Rodrick Brown wrote: > Can someone provide an example why one would want to override __getattr__ > and __getattribute__ in a class?
They're good for cases when you want to provide an "attribute-like" quality but you don't know the attribute in advance. For example, the xmlrpclib uses __getattr__ to "expose" XML-RPC methods over the wire when it doesn't necessarily know what methods are exposed by the service. This allows you do simply do >>> service.method(*args) And have the method "seem" like it's just a local method on an object. There are countless other examples. But that's just one that can be found in the standard library. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
