Perl vs. Python question...

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:32 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> > The simplistic self.foo = self.compute_foo() will trigger a call to
> > __getattr__, so you can't use that within __getattr__.
> 
> That's not true; it *will*, however, trigger a call to __settattr__,
> if it exists; that's what you're thinking of :)
> 
> cf. http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__setattr__
> 
> __getattr__, however, is free to just do `self.foo = ...'.

Thanks for the correction.

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