callability of object: strange behaviour

[Martin Schmettow]

And again me:

Problem solved:
Never forget the

else: raise AttributeError, name

in an __getattr__ definition.

CU
Martin.

Martin Schmettow wrote:
> Hi anybody.
> 
> I'm working on a class which implements a tree by fetching the nodes 
> from a database on demand. A node once fetched should be cached 
> transparently.
> Implementing a method parent() I experienced a very strange behaviour of 
> my object with callability.
> 
> This is the extract of what happens:
> 
> class Node:
>     def __init__(self,name):
>         self.name = name
> 
>     def __getattr__(self,name):
>         if name == 'parent':
>             parent = Node('parent')
>             setattr(self,'parent',parent)
>             return parent
> 
> 
>  >>> node = Node('mynode')
>  >>> callable(node)
> 1
>  >>> node
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
>  >>> node.parent.name
> 'parent'
>  >>> node.parent.__class__
> <class __main__.Node at 0x80fe154>
>  >>>
> 
> What's going wrong? Can anyone explain this behaviour to me?
> Meanwhile I will try, if constructing the parent with new.instance helps.
> 
> CU
> Martin.
> 
>