> And yet, p.__len__() returns 3. I though len(object) simply > called object.__len__.
Not exactly, all __magic__ methods of new style classes are called like getattr(type(obj), "__len__")(obj). As a result magic methods are never looked up on the object, including hooks like __getattr_() and __getattribute__(). Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
