dictionary and __getattr__

[Peter Hansen]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     > Hey, won't the new 2.2 support for extending built-in classes such as
>     > dictionaries make this both easy and complete?
> 
>     Yup:
>     ...
> 
>     Peter> Great, so now instead of KeyError you can get either KeyError
>     Peter> _or_ AttributeError for what is effectively the same problem?
> 
> All I was doing was responding that, "yes, you can do this by subclassing
> dictionary in 2.2.  I was making no judgement about the wisdom of doing
> that.

Sorry.. I wasn't attacking _you_.  I was attempting to sound
sarcastic about the original concept, given that the
inevitable result of such a concept would be the situation
I described.  Your post just happened to be the one I 
responded to.  My mistake. :)

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