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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 11:00:38 -0600
Subject: Re: Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS)
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On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:15 AM, jongiddy <jongiddy@gmail.com> wrote:
> One problem with your untested code, the superclasses would need to be checked before using UFCS, so the structure is:
>
> try:
>     return super().__getattr__(attr)
> except AttributeError:
>     # resolve using UFCS

And then if UFCS finds nothing, make sure the AttributeError gets reraised.