On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > * on the down side, automatic delegation of special double-underscore > methods like __getitem__ and __str__ doesn't work with new-style classes.
I actually consider that an up side. Sure it's inconvenient that you can't delegate all such methods at once just by overriding __getattribute__, but it would be more troublesome to *accidentally* implement such methods because you implemented __getattribute__. And then there are methods that really should not be delegated in the first place, like __del__. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
