[Python-au] help debugging cacheability.py

[Anthony Baxter]

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 22:32, Andrew McNamara wrote:
>  def __getattr__(self, attr):
>   if attr[0] == '_':
>    raise AttributeError
>   attr = lower(replace(attr, '_', '-'))
>   return self.data[attr]

Better yet would be

def __getattr__(self, attr):
    if attr.startswith('__') and attr.endswith('__'):
        raise AttributeError(attr)
    attr = lower(replace(attr, '_', '-'))
    return self.data[attr]

> I haven't verified it, but I imagine Python 1.5's hasattr() caught any
> exception and treated it as a missing attribute, rather than selectively
> catching AttributeError (I seem to remember some discussion of this on
> python-dev in the mists of time).

Yep. This bug was a pain in the arse, and I'm glad it's dead.

-- 
Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.