Hello, I thought __getitem__() was invoked when an object is postfixed with an expression in brackets:
- abc[n] and __getattr__() was invoked when an object is postfixed with an dot: - abc.member but my __getitem__ is being invoked at this time, where there's no subscript (going into a spiral recursion death): self.mcc = self.attrs.mcc Can anybody explain to me why __getitem__() would be invoked here? I'm using __getitem__() AND __getattr__() to handle an array of objects which don't exist yet (autovivification). My __getattr__() could handle the line above, but I don't know how to handle that in __getitem__(): attrdict:av:__getitem__: entered for mcc That's printed by this line: print "attrdict:av:__getitem__: entered for ", key I expected that "key" would always be numeric or a slice TIA cts -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
