[Spambayes] Re: Corpus.Message.__getattr__ can't be correct can it?

[Michael Hudson]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

>     >> The __getattr__ method is really only meant to initialize payload and
>     >> hdrtxt.
> 
>     Michael> In which case why not use a property?
> 
> Why?  __getattr__ works fine, once it's properly written.

I was thinking of its performance-mangling properties.  Dunno if
that's an issue here, it was only an off-the-cuff remark.

Cheers,
M.

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