general class functions

[Andrea Griffini]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:31:42 -0500, Kent Johnson <kent3737 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Instead of
>   return self.__dict__[name]
>you need
>   raise AttributeError, name
>
>self.__dict__ has already been tried before __getattr__ is called, you 
>don't need to try it again.

I hope one day I'll understand python lookup :-)

...

Would it be worse or better to make Library a new-style
class, using __getattribute__ instead of __getattr__ and
defaulting to object.__getattribute__(self,name) in the
"else" part ?

Andrea