On Thursday 05 June 2008 12:31:56 you wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> > well, don't return a string :-P
> >
> > class CallableString(str):
> >   def __call__(self, *args, **kw):
> >      return self
> >
> > And now instead of return '', write return CallableString('')
>
> Whoa, trippy.
>
> That certainly works, but it's a workaround to the original question –
> is there actually any way to 'detect' an attribute/method call?

No, because there are no "method calls" in Python.

obj.method() 

  means:

  locate obj in locals/globals.

  locate method on obj

  call the found thing.

obj => obj.method => obj.method()

Andreas

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