On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014, 21:55 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > All the use cases seem to be about adding some kind of getattr hook to > modules. They all seem to involve modifying the CPython C code anyway. So > why not tackle that problem head-on and modify module_getattro() to look > for a global named __getattr__ and if it exists, call that instead of > raising AttributeError? > > Not sure if anyone thought of it. :) Seems like a reasonable solution to > me. Be curious to know what the benchmark suite said the impact was. > Why would there be any impact? The __getattr__ hook would be similar to the one on classes -- it's only invoked at the point where otherwise AttributeError would be raised.
-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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