[Zope] overload __getattr__ in brains-class?

[Dieter Maurer]

Jo Meder writes:
 > Situation: I'm developing a product where some attributes come from
 > one bunch of SQL-tables and some additional info is obtained by other
 > means.
 > 
 > The idea was to create a brain-class and overwrite __getattr__ to return
 > the correct values from the different sources according to what key the
 > application asked for.
 > 
 > The objects are created (just like in DA.py) via 
 > 
 > 	objects=Results.Results(result,brain,parent,None)
 > 
 > Now whatever I try, either some other __getattr__ seems to be called
 > since I can get none of my "simulated" attributes to show up. 
It should work with modern Zope versions.

I once tried and failed with an older version (Zope 2.1.6).
My "__getattr__" led to an infinite loop.


Dieter