Magic Module Methods?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

I just found myself needing (or wanting) a module which
could have default values for variables that weren't set;
this can be done with Alex's object-as-module trick, but
it occurred to me, why should this be necessary? All I
wanted was to add a __getattr__ method to the module...
Why should I have to replace the module with some other
object to do that? Can't modules be more like objects in
this respect? I mean, why not simply allow this:

def __getattr__(self, name):
    print 'Accessing attribute %s of module %s' (name, self)

Just a thought...

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