> And now for the most import point: __getattr__ is only called as a > *last* resort. That is, after the attribute lookup mechanism will have > tried *and failed* to find the name in the instance's __dict__.
Thanks you all for all the suggestions and thoughts. So in other words, this piece of code: try: return self.__dict__.__getitem__(item) except KeyError: raise AttributeError(item) in __getattr__ is redundant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list