Barry Kelly wrote: > I read in the documentation that these two expressions are > interchangeable: > x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name
I think you'll find: getattr(x, 'name') <==> x.name is what is equivalent. You can define a '__getattribute__' method which will get used, but I doublbt thre is a promise for an exposed name '__getattribute__'. -- --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list