At 05:10 PM 11/5/99 -0800, Jonothan Farr wrote:
Does anyone know whether Acquisition works in a way which is compatible
with
__getattr__?
I'm really interested in the answer to this, too. I had no luck getting __getattr__ to work with acquisition when developing the local file system product. What are the rules? Is this even possible?
When acquisition wrappers go looking for attributes, they will call your __getattr__, but it is with an unwrapped self. This means that acquisition can use __getattr__ routines, but __getattr__ routines cannot make use of the object's acquired attributes. There is *no* workaround, short of rewriting the Acquisition ExtensionClass and creating an alternative application framework to Zope. (I actually did this myself, to solve this very problem of needing "wrapped __getattr__", but of course the resulting framework can't use Zope products. Oh well.)