Type emulation issues with new style classes

[Chris]

I tried a couple variation of that, and __getattr__, when defined in a
metaclass is never called when accessing an attribute on an instance of a
class derived from that metaclass.

Here is some testing I did:

class Zmeta(type):
    def __getattribute__(*args):
        raise Exception('called __getattribute__ with %s' % str(args))
    def __getattr__(*args):
        raise Exception('called __getattr__ with %s' % str(args))

Z = Zmeta('Z', (), {'value': 42})
z = Z()

>>> int(z)
TypeError: int() argument must be a string or a number
>>> z.__int__
AttributeError: 'Z' object has no attribute '__int__'
>>> Z.__int__
Exception: called __getattribute__ with (<class '__main__.Z'>, '__int__')

It appears (and is confirmed in: Metaclass Programming in Python Pt. 2
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pymeta2/?ca=dnt-434) that
metaclass attributes are available to instances (classes) but not instances
of instances.

Chris

"Michael Hudson" wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to make the class Z behave the same way as class Y?
>
> You need a custom metaclass for Z, and implement __getattr__ there.
>
> HTH.
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
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