maximum recursion depth is reducing?
Jp Calderone
exarkun at intarweb.us
Tue Feb 25 13:53:12 EST 2003
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:18:32PM +0000, Xiao-Qin Xia wrote:
> Dear Steven Taschuk,
>
> > __getattr__(self, name)
> > Called when an attribute lookup has not found the attribute in the
> > usual places (i.e. it is not an instance attribute nor is it found
> > in the class tree for self). [...]
> >
> > So if self.text_widget has been bound, a reference to it will be
> > resolved normally, and __getattr__ will not be called.
>
> I hope so, but it doesn't seem to be the truth. In the codes I presented,
> self.text_widget should be created at the same time when the instace is
> created. But obviously __getattr__ will be called if __init__ calls Text to
> create self.text_widget, instead of create it by itself.
Not quite. Everything in __init__ does not occur simultaneously. Each
line is executed before the line following it. In the original code,
def __init__(self, master):
Frame.__init__(self,master)
self.master = master
self.pack()
self.Text(self)
First self.master is assigned, then self.pack is looked up. It isn't
found, because it doesn't exist, so __getattr__ is called with 'pack' as the
name. i is incremented, getattr(self.text_widget, 'pack') is called.
self.text_widget is not found! So __getattr__ is called with 'text_width'
as the name. Repeat, ad infinitum.
>
> This problem make it to be dangerous to override __getattr__.
>
Carelessly written __getattr__ functions can indeed lay waste to whole
contintents. Take care when writting them.
Jp
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