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Well, then I suppose my question is why isn't __contains__ looked up? Other special methods that don't exist on Y do cause __getattr__ to be called. Why is __contains__ special? The docs for __getattr__ don't hint at this possibility either.
I think the people that understand this must have a mental model of how the interpreter looks up methods that has some pieces that are missing from mine. I guess I'd like those bits to be made explicit in the special method lookup docs, or if they are already documented somewhere, for there to be a pointer to them in the special method lookup docs. |
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2011-05-03 21:43:41 | r.david.murray | set | recipients:
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2011-05-03 21:43:41 | r.david.murray | set | messageid: <1304459021.78.0.854822828688.issue11988@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2011-05-03 21:43:39 | r.david.murray | link | issue11988 messages |
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