Intercept methods/raise exception

[Remco Gerlich]

Thomas Weholt wrote in comp.lang.python:
> I tried using __getattr__, like
> 
> def __getattr__(self, attrname):
>    print 'Trace:', attrname
>    return getattr(self, attrname)
> 
> But it crashed terribly. The object in question is accessed lots of
> times. When I ran it, it printed :
> Trace: __coerce__
> Some hundred, thousands times, then collapsed with a bang.

This is simple infinite recursion. The getattr() call calls __getattr__,
etc.

Try returning self.__dict__[attrname].

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