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Author giampaolo.rodola
Recipients djc, giampaolo.rodola, josiah.carlson, josiahcarlson, r.david.murray
Date 2010-04-21.17:34:30
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> Unfortunately, even if forwarding everything to the socket is 
> questionable, it would probably be a really bad idea to change it, 
> since there is likely code in the field depending on this behavior.

I agree, even if it would break a code which is fundamentally *already* wrong. Maybe we can do this in 2.7 and 3.2 only?
The AttributeError message is *very* confusing.
Actually I've seen it a lot of times through the years and never figured out it had to do with that weird __getattr__ statement.
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2010-04-21 17:34:31giampaolo.rodolasetrecipients: + giampaolo.rodola, josiahcarlson, josiah.carlson, djc, r.david.murray
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