> In theory you could hack Python's internal locals or globals > dictionary so that it did something unusual while looking up your > object. But in practice this doesn't work, because the returned > objects (when you call globals() or locals()) attributes are readonly. > Probably because those internal lookup dicts are implemented in > optimized C not Python, and the C implementation doesn't let you > redefine it's internals via the Python interface. > > David.
I'll settle for implementing the __call__() method to return the value as I have no intention to mess around with Python's internal mechanisms. Thanks a lot for your deep insight. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
