On Apr 5, 2005 8:46 PM, Brett C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex A. Naanou wrote: > > Here there are two problems, the first is minor, and it is that > > anything assigned to the __dict__ attribute is checked to be a > > descendant of the dict class (mixing this in does not seem to work)... > > and the second problem is a real annoyance, it is that the mapping > > protocol supported by the Dict object in the example above is not used > > by the attribute access mechanics (the same thing that once happened > > in exec)... > > Actually, overriding __getattribute__() does work; __getattr__() and > __getitem__() doesn't. This was brought up last month at some point without > any resolve (I think Steve Bethard pointed it out).
Yeah, here's the link: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/051837.html I've pointed out three possible "solutions" there, but they all have some significant drawbacks. I took the complete silence on the topic as an indication that none of the options were acceptable. STeVe -- You can wordify anything if you just verb it. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
