Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 3 15:34:59 CEST 2013

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Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I still don't get it why this is an issue though, or at least why this is
> different than any other getattr on any other class,

It's not a problem that getattr() has this behaviour.
What I'm questioning is the idea that getattr() should
be the only provided way of doing a name->enum lookup,
because that will require everyone to do extra checks
to ensure safety.

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Greg

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