[Python-3000] special method lookup [was Re: Confused about getattr() and special methods] (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Sep 4 12:09:12 CEST 2007


Thomas Heller schrieb:

IIUC, in py3k, classic classes do not exist any longer, so the metaclass line has no effect anyway. Is this behaviour intended?

It is another incarnation of special methods being looked up on the class, not the instance. This was always the behavior with new-style classes, see the thread at

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-March/006261.html

for a previous discussion.

I think we should tackle this issue now and make sure the decided resolution is consistently applied throughout Python.

Georg

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