[issue643841] New class special method lookup change

2008-04-22 Thread John Krukoff
John Krukoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I've been following the py3k maliing list disscussion for this issue, and wanted to add a note about the proposed solution described here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-April/013004.html The reason I think this

[issue643841] New class special method lookup change

2008-04-01 Thread John Krukoff
John Krukoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I assume when you say that the documentation has already been updated, you mean something other than what's shown at: http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#new-style-and- classic-classes or http://docs.python.

[issue643841] New class special method lookup change

2008-03-28 Thread John Krukoff
John Krukoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I was just bit by this today in converting a proxy class from old style to new style. The official documentation was of no help in discoverting that neither __getattr__ or __getattribute__ are used to look up magic attribute names. Ev