On Nov 29, 5:21 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > This is a side-effect of name-mangling. Double-underscore names are only > mangled when they are referred to directly as attributes, not when they > are passed to setattr, getattr etc. Those functions don't do any name > mangling.
Ah! That make sense! Thank you! It's a bit of an obscure thing right now. I don't see mention of it in the description of the setattr/getattr built-ins: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html Wouldn't be good to have a hint of the issue there? Manu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
