Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> So how can I tell if 'root.item3' COULD BE FOUND IN THE USUAL PLACES, or
> if it is something that was calculated by __getattr__ ?
> Of course technically, this is possible and I could give a horrible
> method that tells this...
> But is there an easy, reliable and thread safe way in the Python
> language to give the answer?
Why are you trying to do this in the first place? If you need to
distinguish between a "real" attribute and something your code returns,
you shouldn't mix them by defining __getattr__ to begin with.
If, as I suspect, you just want an easy way of accessing child objects
by name, why not rename "__getattr__" in your code to something like
"get"?
Then instead of
>>> root.item3
Use
>>> root.get('item3')
Alternately, make self.items an instance of a custom class with
__getattr__ defined. This way, root's attribute space won't be
cluttered up.
>>> root.items.item3
Either way is a few more characters to type, but it's far saner than
trying to distinguish between "real" and "fake" attributes.
--Ben
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