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You could try 

http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/oop-after-python22.txt

(or attach pdf to the end instead...)

You say:

> The point being that I haven't found any place in the 
> documentation that defines what the attribute lookup is 
> on new-style classes

That's not the problem -- attribute lookup is fairly easy.  What 
you're missing is that attribute lookup != special method lookup.

This probably should be in the core documentation, yes.