Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rod...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> Unfortunately, even if forwarding everything to the socket is 
> questionable, it would probably be a really bad idea to change it, 
> since there is likely code in the field depending on this behavior.

I agree, even if it would break a code which is fundamentally *already* wrong. 
Maybe we can do this in 2.7 and 3.2 only?
The AttributeError message is *very* confusing.
Actually I've seen it a lot of times through the years and never figured out it 
had to do with that weird __getattr__ statement.

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