Code:

```
class Wrapper:
        @staticmethod
        def __getattr__(item):
                return repr(item) # dummy

a = Wrapper()
print(a.foo)
```

Expected output: 'foo'

Actual output with Python 2.7:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_staticmethodattr.py", line 7, in <module>
    print(a.foo)
TypeError: 'staticmethod' object is not callable

Python 3.2 does return the expected ('foo').
PyPy returns the expected 'foo'.

In Python 2 the code example generates an old-style class.  When I tried it with a new style class, it worked fine:

class Wrapper(object):
        @staticmethod
        def __getattr__(item):
                return repr(item) # dummy

a = Wrapper()
print(a.foo)
# 'foo'

Chalk this up to another reason to move to Python 3.  <wink>

I don't quite understand. Shouldn't __getattr__ also work in old-style classes?

And the error itself ('staticmethod' object is not callable), shouldn't that be impossible?