On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Dave Cinege <d...@cinege.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2012 01:41:38 Ian Kelly wrote: > >> I have a few critiques on the code. First, you might want to use >> __getattribute__ instead of __getattr__. Otherwise you'll end up > > File "/home/dcinege/src/thesaurus/thesaurus.py", line 84, in > __getattribute__ > return self.__getitem__(name) > RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object > > This takes me into the same hell as when I was trying to implement this as a > class. Someone else would have to take the time to do this. __getattr__ doing > what I expect it to do, for what i do.
def __getattribute__(self, name): if name.startswith('__') and name.endswith('__'): return super(Thesaurus, self).__getattribute__(name) return self.__getitem__(name) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list