[Python-Dev] special method lookup: how much do we care? (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri May 8 20:09:56 CEST 2009


A while ago, Guido declared that all special method lookups on new-style classes bypass getattr and getattribute. This almost completely consistent now, and I've been working on patching up a few incorrect cases. I've know hit enter and exit. The compiler generates LOAD_ATTR instructions for these, so it uses the normal lookup. The only way I can see to fix this is add a new opcode which uses _PyObject_LookupSpecial, but I don't think we really care this much. Opinions?

-- Regards, Benjamin



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