On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:08:50 +1000
John O'Hagan <resea...@johnohagan.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:27:36 +1000
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
[..]
> > Looks like a call for (semi-)automatic delegation!
> >
> > Try something like this:
> >
> >
> > # Untested
> > class MySeq(object):
> > methods_to_delegate = ('__getitem__', '__len__', ...)
> > pitches = ... # make sure pitches is defined
> > def __getattr__(self, name):
> > if name in self.__class__.methods_to_delegate:
> > return getattr(self.pitches, name)
> > return super(MySeq, object).__getattr__(self, name)
> > # will likely raise AttributeError
>
[..]
>
> However, I don't understand what the super call is doing. If the method isn't
> delegated, shouldn't it just fall back to getattr(self, name)?
On reading the __getattr__ docs properly, I see that AttributeError is what
should generally happen.
> Thanks and regards,
>
> John
>
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