On 23/03/20 7:40 pm, Adam Preble wrote:
I don't doubt what you got from the source, but I am trying to figure
out how I could have inferred that from the code I was trying. It
looks like child_instance.__getattribute__ ==
child_instance.super().__getattribute__.
Don't feel too bad, it took me a while to figure out what was
happening here myself!
I think the problem is that the act of looking up __getattribute__
on the super object invokes the super object's magic lookup
machinery, and ends up giving a misleading result.
It's clearer if you look for __getattribute__ directly on the
*class* of the super object. I tried this experiment:
class C:
a = "a in C"
class D(C):
a = "a in D"
def getsuper(self):
return super()
d = D()
s = d.getsuper()
print("type(d).__getattribute__ =", type(d).__getattribute__)
print("type(s).__getattribute__ =", type(s).__getattribute__)
Result:
type(d).__getattribute__ = <slot wrapper '__getattribute__' of 'object'
objects>
type(s).__getattribute__ = <slot wrapper '__getattribute__' of 'super'
objects>
If you try this with __getattr__ you find that super objects
don't even have one:
print("type(s).__getattr__ =", type(s).__getattr__)
gives
AttributeError: type object 'super' has no attribute '__getattr__'
Another way to see this is to look at the class dict of the super
object:
print(list(type(s).__dict__.keys()))
gives
['__repr__', '__getattribute__', '__get__', '__init__', '__new__',
'__thisclass__', '__self__', '__self_class__', '__doc__']
from which it's clear that the super object overrides __getattribute__
but not __getattr__.
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