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Re: When is overriding __getattr__ is useful?

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  Re: When is overriding __getattr__ is useful? Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2013-01-07 11:47 -0500

#36364 — Re: When is overriding __getattr__ is useful?

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Rodrick Brown wrote:
> Can someone provide an example why one would want to override __getattr__
> and __getattribute__ in a class?


They're good for cases when you want to provide an "attribute-like"
quality but you don't know the attribute in advance.

For example, the xmlrpclib uses __getattr__ to "expose" XML-RPC methods
over the wire when it doesn't necessarily know what methods are exposed
by the service.  This allows you do simply do

>>> service.method(*args)

And have the method "seem" like it's just a local method on an object.


There are countless other examples.  But that's just one that can be
found in the standard library.

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