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On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 08:24:00PM +0000, Mark Shannon wrote:
\> Just one comment. Could the new behaviour of attribute lookup on a
\> module be spelled out more explicitly please?
\>
\>
\> I'm guessing it is now something like:
\>
\> \`module.\_\_getattribute\_\_\` is now equivalent to:
\>
\> def \_\_getattribute\_\_(mod, name):
\> try:
\> return object.\_\_getattribute\_\_(mod, name)
\> except AttributeError:
\> try:
\> getter = mod.\_\_dict\_\_\["\_\_getattr\_\_"\]

A minor point: this should(?) be written in terms of the public
interface for accessing namespaces, namely:

getter = vars(mod)\["\_\_getattr\_\_"\]