Bug? If not, how to work around it?

[Aahz]

In article <u8m2jvsus3om8r96ggnej9s7u3iecv3e29 at 4ax.com>,
Gonçalo Rodrigues  <op73418 at mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>
>>>> class Test(object):
>... 	def __init__(self, obj):
>... 		self.__obj = obj
>... 	def __getattr__(self, name):
>... 		return getattr(self.__obj, name)
>... 	
>>>> a = Test([])
>>>> a.__iter__
><method-wrapper object at 0x0112CF30>
>>>> iter(a)
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
>>>> 
>
>Is this a bug? If not, how to code Test such that iter sees the
>__iter__ of the underlying object?

As Mark guessed, iter() goes directly to the attribute rather than using
the __getattr__ machinery of the class.  However, you can intercept it
using a metaclass, but that requires a bit of fancy footwork to reach
down into the instance to get self.__obj.
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