Example __getattribute__() hook

• class Example(object):

• _p_state = False

• def _p_activate(self):

• print "activate"

• self._p_state = True

• def __getattribute__(self, attr):

• print "intercept", attr

• if not attr.startswith("_p_") and not self._p_state:

• self._p_activate()

• return super(Example, self).__getattribute__(attr)

• >>> obj = Example(); obj.value = "test"

• >>> print obj.value

• intercept value

• intercept _p_state

• intercept _p_activate

• activate

• test

Notes: