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I tried running with current CVS and got the following
results on Linux:

Python 2.3b1+ (#3, Jun 13 2003, 07:56:14)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
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information.
>>> class A:
...     def __getattr__(self, name):
...             return 3
...
>>> a = A()
>>> a.c
3
>>> class B:
...     def __getattr__(self, name):
...             print self, name
...             return 3
...
>>> b = B()
>>> b.c
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in __getattr__
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in __getattr__
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in __getattr__
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in __getattr__
[Repeats lots of times]
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in __getattr__
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
>>> class C:
...     def __init__(self):
...             self.x = 5
...     def __getattr__(self, name):
...             print self.x
...             return 3
...
>>> c = C()
>>> c.c
5
3

$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.4.20-18.9 #1 Thu May 29 06:54:41 EDT 2003
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

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Note that I can print things from getattr, it is just
printing self that gets me in trouble.