Erm... might I suggest... (Re: New PEP: Attribute Access Handlers)

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> If I understand this correctly, then the very first time you add the
> attribute to the dict you effectively wipe out the accessor because the
> test above will evaluate true every time and the branch that uses
> accessors will never get called.

Well, that's the same as the way __getattr__ works now,
since it's only called if normal attribute lookup fails.

If it's considered the wrong behaviour, I wouldn't object
to modifying it as Ben Wolfson suggests, so that a check
for __get_XXX__ is made before the direct attribute access.

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