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Author Paul.Davis
Recipients Paul.Davis, docs@python
Date 2010-05-15.04:10:56
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The docs for __getattr__ in the object model section could be more specific on the behavior when a @property raises an AttributeError and there is a custom __getattr__ defined. Specifically, it wasn't exactly clear that __getattr__ would be invoked after a @property was found and evaluated.

The attached script demonstrates the issue on OS X 10.6, Python 2.6.1

I'm thinking something along the lines of:

If the attribute search encounters an AttributeError (perhaps due to a @property raising the error) the search is considered a failure and __getattr__ is invoked.
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