getattr

[Fredrik Lundh]

kyaBey at gmail.com wrote:

> Is there any  way by which the __getattr__(self,attr) method can
> determine that in
> case a) attr == 'bar' is the final component in the reference unlike in
> case b) where attr=='bar' is NOT the ultimate(final) component of
> reference and is an intermediate component in the reference.

no.

if you want to control further accesses, your __getattr__ has to return a
proxy object, and use a suitable syntax to get the final value.

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