[Python-Dev] Comment on PEP 562 (Module getattr and dir) (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Nov 19 19:57:05 EST 2017


On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 08:24:00PM +0000, Mark Shannon wrote:

Hi,

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__"]

-- Steve



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