23 Mar
1999
23 Mar
'99
noon
Here's an alternative that works:
Thanks for the response. My problem is that I want a deep object model. I want the user to be able to say "spam.eggs" or "pantry.eggs" etc. Just using eggs wont do - I really need it qualified. The solution I came up with was: class DotWrapper: def __init__(self, ob): self._obj_ = ob def __getattr__(self, attr): bits = string.split(attr, '.') ob = getattr(self._obj_, bits[0]) for bit in bits[1:]: ob = getattr(ob, bit) return ob Then: s=Spam() print s.ss(DotWrapper(s)) does pretty-much the right thing... Thanks, Mark.