Re: [Zope-dev] __setattr__ and acquisition ( was RE: __getattr__ and acquisition)

Nicholas Henke (by way of Nicholas Henke ) wrote:

Given the following code: I can see why access to self.thing fails in Inner::__setattr__, but the question is how do I do that -- can I not use __setattr__ and have to use a setAttr that is accessed via O.I.setAttr('help','me rhonda') ?

Acquisition uses a subtle trick that makes everything work: the "self" passed to most methods is actually an acquisition wrapper, rather than the object itself. But the "self" passed to certain methods like __setattr__() is not wrapped. I'm sure there's a good reason. HTH. Shane