Could somebody _PLEASE_ explain what's going on here?

[Michael Hudson]

Steve Juranich <sjuranic at condor.ee.washington.edu> writes:

> Okay, I'm getting really frustrated here because I don't understand what's
> going on.  Up to this morning, I had a class called "Table" that responded
> very nicely to the "print" command.  Now, all of a sudden, it doesn't work. 
> 
> I have made a change in the code.  I overloaded the '__getattr__' to the
> following:
> 
>     # 
>     # 
>     # This deals with accessing options that may have not been defined
>     # in the options file.
>     def __getattr__(self, k):
>         try:
>             return self.__dict__[k]
>         except KeyError:
>             return None

s/return None/raise AttributeError, k/

HTH, HAND,
M.

[...]
> >>> print t 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: call of non-function (type None)
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
                       didn't this give you a clue?

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