Unexpected behavior of read only attributes and super

[Samuel M.Smith]

Even more strangeness

If I define the class to use slots

class SD(dict):
       __slots__ = ['a','b']

s = SD()

 >>> s.__iter__
<method-wrapper object at 0x2808f0>
 >>> s.__iter__ = 5
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'SD' object attribute '__iter__' is read-only

Then I get the read only exception but not because it was read only  
but because
I defined slots.

This looks like a logic error in how setattr is working in in the  
superclass dict




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