On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:45:46 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
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>> Unfortunately, I need to use delegation, not inheritance, and I need to
>> use a new-style class, since I will be using Python 3. How can I do
>> automatic delegation in Python 3? Is my only hope to give up on the
>> elegance of automa
On Wednesday 08 September 2010, it occurred to Steven D'Aprano to exclaim:
> What's going on here? I *think* this has something to do with special
> double-underscore methods being looked up on the class, not the instance,
> for new-style classes, but I'm not entirely sure.
Yes, special methods ar
On 9/8/2010 9:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Delegation in old-style classes worked fine:
# Python 2.6
class Delegate:
... def __init__(self, x):
... self.__dict__['x'] = x
... def __getattr__(self, name):
... return getattr(self.x, name)
... def __setattr__(
