[Zope-dev] How to override __getattr__ and not break acquisition

[Steve Alexander]

> I perhaps should have clarified that I need to be able to specify the
> name of the attributes or methods at run time, so ComputedAttribute
> unfortunately won't do the trick as you have to define each
> attribute/method you require in the class definition.
> 
> ie. I need something like :
> def __getattr__(self,attr):
>    if name in self.methodlist:
>      <do something>
>    return Implicit.__class__.__getattr__(self,attr)
> 
> where self.methodlist is a list of strings that may change per instance
> and/or at runtime, or itself could be calculated at the time of doing
> the __getattr__ (eg self.getMethodList()).

Sounds like you could use ZPatterns.

If you do implement your own __getattr__, you might need to check if the 
object you want to return implements __of__, and return 
object.__of__(self) (or something like that).

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Steve Alexander